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This week the Department of Justice received a guilty plea from Jianjie Liu, a Chinese citizen living in Texas.
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| https://www.justice.gov/usao-ndga/pr/chinese-national-pleads-guilty-money-laundering-scheme |
In Call Center Frauds, there are many roles to be played. One of these roles is often referred to as “Runner.” When people in other countries are the ones running the phones and Facebook accounts used in fraud, they often need someone in the United States to pick up packages and open bank accounts. From that perspective, Liu was a Runner.
The case began when Liu was arrested at a Walmart in Duluth, Georgia after attempting to purchase “a suspicious number of gift cards.” During that arrest, her 2016 black Nissan Altima was searched, and was found to have 718 gift cards, mostly WalMart, Vanilla Mastercard, and American Express gift cards. he also had a deposit slip showing that she controlled a JP Morgan Chase Bank account ending in #5887. The bank account was tied to her business license in Gwinnett County, Georgia fro “A&J Commercial Services” which used an address at 16634 Roseglade Drive, Cypress, TX 77429.
The 16,000 images on her phone were reviewed, and found to contain many images of gift cards along with their accompanying purchase receipts.
From May 30, 2019 until September 30, 2019, Liu deposited at least $70,400 into her Chase account from elderly fraud victims. Those funds were all seized by the U.S. Secret Service, however there were many other victims and victim types descri
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