Mother and daughter caught in identity theft bust

October 3, 2008 – 10:12 am

A mother daughter team have been caught using fraudulent credit cards to purchase merchandise. Cassidy Janosky, worked at Bank of the West and used her position of vice president of business-development to steal the information of bank customers. Janosky then use the information to open credit cards in the unsuspecting bank customers names. Janosky’s mother,Cynthia Walker, was a real-estate agrent and used her knowledge of the housing market to find vacant houses that they could send the fraudulent credit cards to.

The two were caught when they tried to pickup some merchandise that they had ordered online using the fraudulent credit cards. They had ordered a couple LCD TVs as well as a playstation 3 from a sears in Kennewick. Altogether the two are accused of racking up more than 13,000 in fraudulent charges.

Janosky is being charged with four counts of mail fraud and three accounts of aggravated identity theft. Her mother is planning on signing a plea agreement where she is expected to testify against her daughter. If she does so the two accounts of aggravated identity-theft should be dropped against Cynthia Walker.

The police original started to investigate the identity theft when a West Richard resident reported that her credit card had been opened in her name without her knowing.

Identity theft can happen anywhere and at anytime. Make sure that you are protected even from those that you trust with your information. You never know when an organization held to protecting your information is going to be the one that steals it. To receive a discount on LifeLock, use LifeLock promotion code, Defense.

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