{"id":92317,"date":"2019-11-01T14:08:41","date_gmt":"2019-11-01T18:08:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=92317"},"modified":"2019-11-01T14:15:11","modified_gmt":"2019-11-01T18:15:11","slug":"military-pii-stolen-to-compromise-their-bank-accounts-and-benefit-payments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=92317","title":{"rendered":"Military PII Stolen to Compromise Their Bank Accounts and Benefit Payments"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_86052\" style=\"width: 486px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-86052\" class=\"size-large wp-image-86052\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Communism-sudhx7n1zs921.jpg?resize=476%2C333&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"476\" height=\"333\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Communism-sudhx7n1zs921.jpg?resize=476%2C333&amp;ssl=1 476w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Communism-sudhx7n1zs921.jpg?resize=300%2C210&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Communism-sudhx7n1zs921.jpg?w=640&amp;ssl=1 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 476px) 100vw, 476px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-86052\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Not being satisfied with an honest day&#8217;s work, and with what one earns the right way, reminds me of this meme. (r\/The_Donald\/)<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<p>Frederick Brown was a former Army Civilian employee involved with medical records administration. He was based in Yongsan Garrison, South Korea. He provided information to others, who used this private information to steal millions.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">From Fox News:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Appearing before U.S. Magistrate Judge Richard Farrer in San Antonio Tuesday, he pleaded guilty to <span style=\"color: #000000;\">one count of <\/span><strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">conspiracy to commit wire fraud<\/span><\/strong>, and one count of <strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">conspiracy to launder monetary instruments<\/span><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>He admitted that between July 2014 and September 2015, <strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">he stole the personal identifying information<\/span><\/strong> of thousands of military members, <strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">including their names, social security numbers, dates of birth, and contact information<\/span><\/strong>, according to a DOJ press release.<\/p>\n<p>Brown said he gave this data to a man named Robert Wayne Boling Jr., which Boling and others exploited in various ways <strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">to access Department of Defense and Veterans Affairs benefits sites and to steal millions of dollars<\/span><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Boling, a U.S. citizen, conspired with Philippines-based co-defendants &#8212; Australian citizen Allan Albert Kerr and South Korean citizen Jongmin Seok &#8212; to use the stolen information to unlawfully access benefits information online from a DOD portal, the DOJ said. <strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">The benefits information allegedly enabled the men to compromise military members&#8217; bank accounts and veterans&#8217; benefits payments<\/span><\/strong>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This was a scheme that also involved an Australian and South Korean. Each conspiracy charge, that results in a conviction, can result in up to 20 years in prison.<\/p>\n<p>Fox News has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/ex-army-civilian-pleads-guilty-scheme-stole-millions-veterans\">details<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Weekend Open Thread is in the hoper. This is a filler open thread until the WOT comes online (smile).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Frederick Brown was a former Army Civilian employee involved with medical records administration. He was based in Yongsan Garrison, South Korea. He provided information to others, who used this private information to steal millions. From Fox News: Appearing before U.S. Magistrate Judge Richard Farrer in San Antonio Tuesday, he pleaded guilty to one count of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[209,221],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-92317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-teh-stoopid","category-open-thread"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4ozh1-o0Z","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92317","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=92317"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92317\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=92317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=92317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=92317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}