ROUND ROCK, Texas — A Round Rock man was sentenced in an Austin federal court docket to 24 months in jail for conspiracy to commit wire fraud.
In accordance to court docket paperwork, from August 2019 to February 2021, Daniel Akira Mills, 22, dedicated a cyber intrusion method referred to as “SIM swapping” to defraud victims of lots of of 1000’s of {dollars} in property.
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Throughout a SIM swap assault, Mills gained management of a sufferer’s cell phone quantity by linking that quantity to a subscriber id module (SIM) card managed by him. The sufferer’s calls and messages would then be routed to a tool managed by Mills which gave him entry to the victims’ accounts.
Mills and his cohorts additionally posted messages on their victims’ social media accounts and posted non-public photographs stolen from the accounts of celebrities.
By means of this scheme, more than $600,000 in cryptocurrency was stolen from dozens of individuals nationwide.
As well as to the 2-year jail sentence, Mills should pay more than $530,000 in restitution to the victims.