Credit card fraud ring used composite identities to steal $3 million from banks: feds

The credit cards were real, but the people who got the bills were fake.

Nearly a dozen fraudsters from Queens, Brooklyn and the Bronx used “synthetic” identities to make about $3 million in credit card charges, and never paid the banks holding their debts.

The 11 suspects charged in Brooklyn federal...

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