Bringing down an identity theft ring is no easy thing. Law enforcement often has to go undercover for months at a time, get involved with the criminals — and actually do illegal transactions with money being swapped. This is a very risky proposition that FBI Special Agent Waldo J. Longa, and his team, had no problem with getting down and dirty to stop an identity theft ring in Palm Beach County, Florida.

Between June and July, the ring, comprised of seven low lifes, made 32 separate fake IDs using information stolen from people in Florida, California and other states and showed FBI agents a list of 110 real identities to choose from. A

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US and Egyptian authorities have charge almost 100 people for their involvement in a identity theft ring that has stolen money from thousands of bank accounts. The FBI has arrested 50 people in the United States and Egyptian authorities arrested 47 who are all apart of the same identity theft ring.

The identity theft ring was using email addresses to attempt to trick people into logging into fake websites giving away there private account information. This is commonly refereed to as a phishing attack. The websites often look exactly like the real site but they secretly steal your login information.

At this time we do not know how the US and Egyptian people know each other or how they are connected. Perhaps they where partners or maybe they just bought and some information from each other. Whatever the case it’s shocking that this many people could be working together for this long. T

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