Two Indicted on Identity Theft Fraud

Two northeastern Louisiana residents were indicted by a federal grand jury in Lafayette on Wednesday on identity theft and credit card fraud. Amon Peoples, 23, and Tonyell Toliver, 36, were indicted on charges of taking part in a scheme to defraud credit and debit card account holders. Peoples and Toliver obtained credit and debit card numbers without the cardholders' consent. The two would then re-encode the stolen data onto magnetic strips of credit cards and gift cards. Peoples was also charged with trying to buy account holders' individual account numbers from Regions Bank. Posted in: Account Takeover Identity Theft