From PC Mag: The US says it’s charged 13 suspects involved in stealing thousands of packages containing iPhones and other electronics.
The criminal ring allegedly targeted Fedex and other companies by finding ways to identify valuable shipments and stealing them from delivery addresses, according to the US attorney’s office for the district of New Jersey.
The thefts were widespread, targeting addresses across the country, and “caused millions of dollars of losses to the victims,” Acting US Attorney for the District Vikas Khann said. The stolen products, which included iPads, Samsung phones and other devices, were then resold in locations including the Bronx and Brooklyn.
The charged suspects include 37-year-old Demetrio Reyes Martinez of the Dominican Republic and 12 other individuals from New York and New Jersey. Specifically, Reyes Martinez developed a computer program to scrape data from customer-facing order tracking systems from Fedex and an unnamed cellular carrier, with the goal of identifying potentially valuable packages.
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