Houston Man Lands 4 Years in Prison for Credit Card Scam
Ninh Nguyen, 58, of Houston, has been ordered to 48 months in prison for engaging in access device fraud, announced United States Attorney Kenneth Magidson today. Nguyen pleaded guilty to the crime on October 4, 2012, admitting he possessed 15 or more credit card account numbers that had been stolen or obtained with intent to defraud.
Additional evidence presented during the sentencing hearing proved that Nguyen continued to engage in access device fraud in Arizona while released on bond. U.S. District Judge Gray H. Miller handed Nguyen a 48-month sentence followed by three years of supervised release.
Nguyen was arrested on March 30, 2012, at the Wal-Mart on Tomball Parkway by the Harris County Sheriff’s Department for shoplifting 32 Wal-Mart gift cards. Court records indicated that he was detained and subsequently found to be in possession of more than 250 credit, debit, and other gift cards.
Many of the cards were in Nguyen’s name, but some were in his wife’s name and in the names of others. All of the cards were analyzed, and 27 were found to have magnetic strips encoded with numbers and accountholder information that did not match the number or name on the front of the card.
The true accountholders for the 27 re-encoded cards were contacted and all stated that they had not given Nguyen permission to possess their card numbers or to re-encode them onto credit, debit, or gift cards.
The matter was investigated by the United States Secret Service and the Harris County Sheriff’s Department and is being prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorney James R. Buchanan.
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Key Facts
- State: Texas
- Category: Fraud & Financial Crimes
- Source: DOJ Press Release â†â€â€
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