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Six Men Charged with Stealing Millions of Air Miles
DALLAS, TX – Six men have been charged with stealing millions of airline frequent flier miles, announced U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas Erin Nealy Cox.
A federal grand jury indicted Wojciech Borkowski (43, of Zgierz, Poland), Terran Oliver (51, of Allen, TX), Semaj Lee (55, of Oklahoma City, OK), Derrick Booker (49, of Spencer, OK), Yusuf Siddique (30, of Folsom, CA), and Stanley Benton (42, of Los Angeles, CA) on conspiracy to commit wire fraud in August 2019.
The lead defendant, Mr. Borkowski, was arrested in Poland in May 2020. Following a successful extradition request, he was handed over to FBI custody on Friday morning, and flown from Warsaw to Dallas over the weekend. He made his initial appearance before Magistrate Judge Renee Harris Toliver Monday morning.
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Borkowski was taken into FBI custody on Friday morning, and extradited from Warsaw to Dallas over the weekend. He made his initial appearance before Magistrate Judge Renee Harris Toliver on Monday.
According to the indictment, Borkowski allegedly hacked into consumers’ airline miles accounts and used the compromised accounts to book flights for unsuspecting passengers who had purchased travel through Oliver, Lee, Booker, Siddique, and Benton, the other five defendants in the case.
The passengers would send their requested itinerary and personal information to one of the five men who would then send the information and a money order to Borkowski, the indictment alleges.
Six men charged with stealing ‘millions’ of airline frequent flier miles
A hacker in Poland allegedly accessed frequent flier accounts in exchange for payments from associates in Texas, Oklahoma and California.
Travelers at Terminal D the day before Thanksgiving at DFW International Airport.(Juan Figueroa / Staff Photographer)
Six men, including one from North Texas, have been arrested and charged in a federal court as part of an international conspiracy to steal millions of airline frequent flier miles and sell ill-gotten plane tickets to unsuspecting buyers.
A Polish suspect, Wojciech Borkowski, was turned over to the FBI last week after being extradited from his home country on charges of hacking into consumers’ airline mile accounts and using those miles to buy flights for customers paying him for tickets, according to the office of U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas Erin Nealy Cox.