Eight Indicted for LimeWire Identity Theft
A grand jury’s handed down indictments to eight people who allegedly used LimeWire to help with their identity-theft circle.
The Denver District Attorney announced that three main players, Michael Sarrasin, 27, Shawn Adams, 32, and Tamara Stesney, 36, were indicted yesterday (Nov. 30) on 115 charges, including racketeering and computer crime. The indictment follows an October arrest in the Mile High City that linked the peer-to-peer file-sharing network LimeWire in an identity theft ring.
Authorities allege the Sarrasin, Adams and Stesney, along with five others, used LimeWire to access names and account information from personal computers and use them to open fraudulent accounts at Denver-area banks, where they’d deposit phony checks and then turn the money over to purchase methamphetamines. Police peg victims’ losses at about $70,000.
No details about how the trio used the software to gain access to personal data were given. Court dates are pending.
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