Alexandria, VA – A Las Vegas man was sentenced to 60 months in prison for his role in a $1.4 million ID theft scheme that involved assuming the identities of inactive businesses nationwide.
Myrick Clift Beasley, 56, used his business acumen to develop a scheme to defraud large retailers and service providers by obtaining goods and services on credit using stolen identities, according to U.S. Attorney Dana J. Boente.
Between 2010 and 2015, Beasley assumed the identities of at least 148 legitimate businesses and used those stolen identities to obtain $1.4 million in goods and services from various victims, including smart phones, computers, and other electronics.
Beasley would identify inactive businesses, rent virtual office space in their names, create internet domain names and email addresses, and obtain phone numbers previously associated with the businesses. He would then order goods and services on credit and have them shipped to virtual office locations, which would re-ship them to rented mailboxes elsewhere in the country.
Beasley would then retrieve the items from the mailboxes and sell them. He used prepaid debit cards to pay for the costs of operating his scheme and concealed his true identity by using false names.
This is not Beasley’s first run-in with the law. He was previously convicted of mail fraud in 1989 and again in 1999.
U.S. District Judge T.S. Ellis, III accepted Beasley’s plea and sentenced him to 60 months in prison. The case was prosecuted by Special Assistant U.S. Attorney Christopher R. Fenton and Assistant U.S. Attorney Paul J. Nathanson.
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Key Facts
- State: Virginia
- Category: White Collar Crime|Fraud & Financial Crimes
- Source: DOJ Press Release â†â€â€
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