A teenager who used other people's credit cards to buy computer equipment and digital cameras on the internet then sell them on eBay was jailed for 15 months yesterday.
Cally Leeming (19) admitted downloading in excess of 10,000 identities, including names, dates of birth, mothers' maiden names, addresses and bank details.
Leeming, of Coventry, would select his victims, move them to a "new address" with their bank and then strip their assets and credit.
He was assisted by girlfriend Natalie Sayers (19), also of Coventry, who was handed a nine-month sentence suspended for two years at Swindon Crown Court in Wiltshire.
Sayers, who according to police has a young child with Leeming, was also handed a 12-month probation order.
Police were first alerted to Leeming and Sayers' activities in August 2005, when contacted by a 34-year-old Swindon man who had his credit card used to buy pounds 5,775-worth of goods.
Officers from Swindon Police Fraud Section established the bulk of transactions involved the use of numerous international internet retail suppliers and goods were being obtained by the use of hundreds, if not thousands, of people's credit card numbers.
The goods were then sold and the proceeds put in Sayers' bank account.
Investigating officers travelled all over the country to speak to people who bought the items, as well as liaising with UK police forces, the eBay Fraud Section in Dublin and victims' b anks.
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