$117k charged on stolen Cheesecake Factory diners' credit cards
May 24, 2010
Total Loss:
$117,000
Diners at a Washington location of the Cheesecake Factory lost $117,000 to servers and their co-conspirators who stole their credit card numbers, the U.S. Secret Service said in court documents.
Nicole Ward, a former employee of the Cheesecake Factory at 5345 Wisconsin Ave. NW, has been accused of recruiting two servers to help skim the diners' credit card numbers for a fraud ring. Ward was arrested on bank fraud charges last week. The two servers were identified in court records only by their initials and have not been charged after cooperating with investigators. The scheme started in June 2008 and ran through May 2009, according to court documents filed in Alexandria's federal court.
Source:
Washington Examiner
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Credit Card Fraud