Silk Road coupon forger charged with wire fraud
US law enforcement's infiltration and takedown of the Silk Road underground marketplace has turned up yet another court case, with a New Orleans man charged with selling counterfeit shopping coupons through the site, and its successors, on an epic scale.
30-year-old Beau Wattigney has been indicted in the Eastern District of Louisiana on one count of conspiracy to commit wire fraud and one of conspiracy to commit trademark counterfeiting.
Prosecutors claim Wattigney is behind a long-running series of coupon scams, going by online nicknames including PurpleLotus, GoldenLotus, MoxDiamond and NickMode.
Over a period of at least 18 months, from May 2012 to November 2014, Wattigney is alleged to have sold thousands of counterfeit coupons targeting at least 50 different companies. According to the indictment, in just one year over 2000 distinct sales raked in more...
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