CHARLOTTE — Investigators discovered a website designed to make fake credit cards for criminals who stole personal information. Now two local people are facing charges.
Victor Morris and Lakisha Bryant are accused of having hundreds of fake credit and debit cards.
"It's the technology," Charlotte resident Stephen Gill said. "That's what it comes down to"
According to the indictment, from October 2012 through February 2013, Morris and Bryant received "approximately 209 counterfeit credit cards and counterfeit debit cards" from a website run in Florida called "Fakeplastic." According to investigators, the site sold the cards to "members-only customers."
Getting a membership wasn't easy. It required sponsorship, from someone already in the fake credit card business, according to the indictment.
"It's probably just going to get even better for those people to get things done like that," Gill said. "And unfortunately, we have to pay the price for that."
Investigators believe the Charlotte pair received the cards through U.S. mail. And that's where innocent people become victims. The indictment says the couple would take stolen credit card information and put it on their new fake cards. Then they could use the cards at stores. In December 2012 investigators say the pair "possessed over 40 unused gift cards," valued at around $12,000.
Morris and Bryant are facing mail, wire and bank fraud charges.
Charlotte couple arrested, accused of making fake credit cards for criminals
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