Steve Butcher
August 6, 2009
A STRING of leading Melbourne retail stores — including Melbourne’s premier outlets Myer and David Jones — have been victims of a $500,000 scam whose syndicate ringleaders recruited overseas students.
The stores, which included Dick Smith and JB Hi-Fi, were duped by fake credit cards the students used to buy hundreds of gift cards.
Melbourne Magistrates Court yesterday heard Ching Boon Goh, 25, produced the cards from an embossing machine, blank credit cards and stolen credit cards numbers from overseas. Goh, who added other identification to match the cards, recruited numerous Malaysian and other overseas students to attend the stores between October and January this year.
In documents tendered to court, Goh obtained about $226,000 from the students who bought gift cards, which are basically cash substitutes, valued between $50 and $500.
Goh then onsold the gift cards to other offenders, allegedly including Rubesch Thannanjeyan, for 70 per cent of their value.
example of identity fraud
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