Fraudsters filed false tax returns on behalf of strangers

[Viper Carder]

They wanted to get a tax deduction using stolen personal data.

Three men were arrested on November 30 in London ( Great Britain ), and another man – on December 1 in Malmo ( Sweden ). All those arrested are threatened with extradition to their respective countries and the maximum sentence of 20 years in prison.

Four criminals are accused of involvement in a complex fraud scheme, in which defendants Taylor and Ransya broke into the computer servers of several American companies and stole personal data from US residents.

Then they used this data to file tax returns to receive tax deductions. Other arrested Adafin and Oyebanjo allegedly found a way to turn tax returns into prepaid debit cards or transfer funds to their bank accounts. According to the indictment, part of the funds was sent to Taylor and Ranxia.

All four were charged on the following counts:

• electronic communications fraud;
• filing false declarations in the USA;
• theft of state money or property;
• aggravated identity theft.

The indictment states that Taylor and Ransya were able to access computers using the xDedic trading platform, which was closed by the FBI, IRS and the Department of Justice in 2019 . The xDedic trading platform specialized in the sale of credentials to access hacked corporate servers.
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