8/17/16
by News Department on 08/17/16Couple charged with credit card fraud...
A federal grand jury in Scranton has indicted 44 year old Carrie F. Aker and 33 year old Mario M. Valentine, both of Shenandoah, for conspiracy to commit wire fraud using counterfeit credit cards, and with laundering the proceeds of their fraudulent activities.
According to the US Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania, the indictment charges Aker and Valentine with obtaining credit and debit card account information of other individuals from unindicted co-conspirators and from black market internet websites.
Aker and Valentine allegedly manufactured counterfeit credit and debit cards using the information, traveled to locations at which the actual cardholders resided, and used the counterfeit cards at retail stores.
The activities took places from in or about November 2011 through September 2015.
The investigation was conducted by the Federal Bureau of Investigation and by the Pennsylvania State Police.
