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Life takes Visa. Man takes 170 million credit card accounts. (government, Washington, Miami)

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08-17-2009, 06:53 PM

70Ford

Location: Georgia, on the Florida line, right above Tallahassee

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Man charged in largest-ever ID theft scheme - Security- msnbc.com

WASHINGTON - Federal prosecutors on Monday charged a Miami man with the largest case of credit and debit card data theft ever in the United States, accusing the one-time government informant of swiping 130 million accounts on top of 40 million he stole previously.

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