internet fraud

Second Defendant in Internet Scheme that Defrauded Trucking Companies Sentenced to Federal Prison.

Two 34 year old men from California used a federal Internet site and the U.S. mail to defraud trucking companies of more than $2.7 million. Both pleaded guilty in February to using bogus corporate and individual identities and accessing the Safety and Fitness Electronic Records System(Internet website of the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration of the U.S. Department of Transportation). They made up a trucking company and would find places that needed truck loads transported and then hire someone else to transport it for them under a different trucking company but never paid that company. After his partner was sentenced for six years in prison, the other was sentenced to 55 months in Federal Prison and also has to pay restitution to the 300 victims of the scheme.