Alleged New York Scammers Drain $2,257,697 From JPMorgan Chase, Citibank, and Others in Credit Card Scheme

Two New York men have been charged in an alleged synthetic identity scheme that used stolen Social Security numbers to obtain credit and debit cards and rack up roughly $2.3 million in losses.

The father-and-son duo, Talib Hussain, 75, and Mirza Khan, 48, both of Pittsford, were named in a 19-count federal indictment accusing them of conspiracy to commit bank, wire and access device fraud, access device fraud and aggravated identity theft, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Western District of New York.

According to prosecutors, the scheme operated from around 2012 through July 23rd, 2024. Hussain, Khan and their alleged co-conspirators obtained legitimate Social Security numbers belonging to real people and used them to construct fake identities without the victims’ knowledge.

The group allegedly used those identities to submit approximately 1,072 online applications for credit and debit cards from various financial institutions.

Prosecutors say the suspects rented apartments in Western New York and used those addresses to receive the cards once the applications were approved.

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