According to court documents, the pair devised a scheme to SIM swap mobile customers' phones at a local AT&T store where the woman worked. The scheme netted the two at least $250,000 in cryptocurrency transfers.
22-year-old Andrew Percy Trujillo pled guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit computer fraud and abuse as well as wire fraud last year. 34-year-old Zena Elisa Dounson pled guilty to the same charge in September.
Dounson received a split sentence of two months in prison and five years of probation. She was also ordered to pay $282,000 in restitution. SIM swapping is a method of fraud where a victim's cell phone carrier is compromised to re-assign a phone number from one SIM card to another, says the US Attorney's office. This allows phone and text communications to be intercepted and used to compromise the phone owner’s other accounts.
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