Daniel Henry Lopez sentenced for scamming vets
A tiny article from My San Antonio reports that a 69-year-old was sentenced to 51 months in jail for trolling the local VA facilities for identities to steal;
U.S. District Judge Xavier Rodriguez also ordered Daniel Henry Lopez to pay $84,741 in restitution and to serve three years of federal supervision once he gets out of prison.
Lopez pleaded guilty in October to wire fraud and aggravated identity theft. He admitted he stole personal information from people he met at Veterans Administration rehabilitation facilities to take out credit cards and to submit $78,000 in fake income tax returns.
So, I guess computers aren’t the only way you can lose data at the VA. I know this isn’t the VA’s fault, but sometimes we lose our personal information the old fashioned way.
Category: Veterans Issues
Slimy asshole was probably going around chatting up elderly vets and swiping their stuff,
Probably offered to “help them, as he helped himself.
Time to freeze credit reports.
Good point PH. I had a military lock on mine for years (if you were military you could do it two years at a time). Might have to look back at that again as it been a few years. Basically any time you tried to get credit, it had to be verified. Pain in the ass a couple times trying to get a car or what-not, but me thinks I’ll look into it again.