Computer scammer gets seven and a half years

Stefan Mileschin · 8th June 2021, 08:05

For asking Big Tech to send him replacement kit

A scammer who convinced some of the world's biggest tech businesses to send him replacement gear has been sentenced to seven years and eight months.

Justin David May, 31, used stolen hardware serial numbers, a plethora of fake websites and online identities, social engineering tactics, and a network of associates, to scam Cisco out of nearly $3.5 million in hardware in just 12 months.

Microsoft lost 137 Surface laptops - retail cost $364,761 - to the crew, with Lenovo US also losing 137 replacement hard drives worth $143,000 and APC (formerly American Power Conversion) getting scammed out of a few uninterruptible power supplies.

May pled guilty to 42 counts of mail fraud, 10 counts of money laundering, three counts of interstate transportation of goods obtained by fraud, and two counts of tax evasion.

In the largest scam against Cisco, run from April 2016. May and his chum set up domains and email addresses to mimic cisco.com user IDs and harvested serial numbers of legit machinery.

They then used these to trick Cisco into sending out replacement kit, such as a Cisco Catalyst 3850-48P-E Switch worth around $21,000 at the time, and a couple of Cisco ASR 9001 routers priced at over $100,000 for the pair.

https://fudzilla.com/news/52995-comp...d-a-half-years

8th June 2021, 08:05	#1
Stefan Mileschin [M] Reviewer Join Date: May 2010 Location: Romania Posts: 152,472	Computer scammer gets seven and a half years For asking Big Tech to send him replacement kit A scammer who convinced some of the world's biggest tech businesses to send him replacement gear has been sentenced to seven years and eight months. Justin David May, 31, used stolen hardware serial numbers, a plethora of fake websites and online identities, social engineering tactics, and a network of associates, to scam Cisco out of nearly $3.5 million in hardware in just 12 months. Microsoft lost 137 Surface laptops - retail cost $364,761 - to the crew, with Lenovo US also losing 137 replacement hard drives worth $143,000 and APC (formerly American Power Conversion) getting scammed out of a few uninterruptible power supplies. May pled guilty to 42 counts of mail fraud, 10 counts of money laundering, three counts of interstate transportation of goods obtained by fraud, and two counts of tax evasion. In the largest scam against Cisco, run from April 2016. May and his chum set up domains and email addresses to mimic cisco.com user IDs and harvested serial numbers of legit machinery. They then used these to trick Cisco into sending out replacement kit, such as a Cisco Catalyst 3850-48P-E Switch worth around $21,000 at the time, and a couple of Cisco ASR 9001 routers priced at over $100,000 for the pair. https://fudzilla.com/news/52995-comp...d-a-half-years

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