Cyber Crime: Jimmy Phan And Lee Tran Sentenced For Multi-State Scheme to Defraud T-Mobile

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Two Men Sentenced in Multi-State Scheme to Fraudulently Obtain New Cell Phones

<h2>Two Men Sentenced in Multi-State Scheme to Fraudulently Obtain New Cell Phones<&sol;h2>&NewLine;<p>BOSTON – Two men were sentenced yesterday in federal court in Boston in connection with a fraudulent scheme to obtain and re-sell more than &dollar;330&comma;000 in new cell phones&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Jimmy Phan&comma; 30&comma; of Boston&comma; was sentenced yesterday by U&period;S&period; District Court Senior Judge Mark L&period; Wolf to 18 months in prison&comma; three years of supervised release&comma; and ordered to pay approximately &dollar;275&comma;000 in restitution&period;  Judge Wolf also sentenced Lee Tran&comma; 30&comma; of Waltham&comma; to 12 months of probation and ordered him to pay approximately &dollar;3&comma;200 in restitution&period;  Phan and Tran both pleaded guilty to wire fraud conspiracy in February 2016&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Phan and Tran were part of a six-person&comma; multi-state scheme to defraud T-Mobile&period; Co-defendant Kevin Johnson was sentenced in April 2017 to 70 months in prison&period; In May 2016&comma; co-defendants David Hul and Curtis Peebles were sentenced to 21 and 18 months in prison&comma; respectively&period; The wire fraud conspiracy charge against the sixth co-defendant&comma; Khoa Doan&comma; was dismissed when Judge Wolf <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;justice&period;gov&sol;usao-ma&sol;pr&sol;new-hampshire-man-sentenced-trafficking-stolen-retail-debit-cards">sentenced Doan<&sol;a> to prison on a related charge&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Phan&comma; Hul&comma; Peebles&comma; Johnson&comma; and co-conspirators gained access to T-Mobile customer records&comma; including customer names&comma; phone numbers&comma; and information regarding those customers’ eligibility for free phone upgrades&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>From at least January 2014 through October 17&comma; 2014&comma; Phan&comma; Hul&comma; Johnson&comma; Peebles&comma; and other co-conspirators called T-Mobile customer service centers and&comma; impersonating T-Mobile employees&comma; used dealer codes that enabled them to add any name as an authorized user on T-Mobile accounts&period; They then recruited &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;runners&comma;” including Tran&comma; to go into T-Mobile stores and impersonate the customers&period; Phan&comma; Hul&comma; Peebles and Johnson sometimes directed the runners to use false names that closely matched their real names to reduce the likelihood of T-Mobile detecting the fraud&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Runners then went to T-Mobile stores in Massachusetts&comma; Nevada&comma; New Hampshire&comma; New York&comma; Pennsylvania&comma; Rhode Island&comma; New Jersey&comma; Florida&comma; and elsewhere&comma; presented identification in the real or assumed names&comma; and acquired one or more new cell phones on accounts that were eligible for upgrades&period; Runners then returned the new phones to Phan&comma; Hul&comma; Peebles&comma; and others&comma; who paid them a portion of each phone’s value&period; Although T-Mobile regularly alerted its customers to changes to their accounts&comma; the affected customers frequently did not learn of the fraudulent modifications in time to prevent the distribution of the phones&period; Phan&comma; Hul&comma; and others re-sold the cell phones to other co-conspirators for distribution in the United States and abroad&period; In total&comma; the scheme netted at least &dollar;330&comma;000 worth of new cell phones&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Acting United States Attorney William D&period; Weinreb&semi; Matthew J&period; Etre&comma; Special Agent in Charge of Homeland Security Investigations in Boston&semi; and Stephen A&period; Marks&comma; Special Agent in Charge of the U&period;S&period; Secret Service’s Boston Field Office&comma; made the announcement&period; Assistant U&period;S&period; Attorney Seth B&period; Kosto of Weinreb’s Cybercrime Unit prosecuted the case&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;justice&period;gov&sol;usao-ma&sol;pr&sol;two-men-sentenced-multi-state-scheme-fraudulently-obtain-new-cell-phones">Original PressReleases&&num;8230&semi;<&sol;a><&sol;p>&NewLine;

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