Georgia man charged for robbing NBA, NFL players through stolen Apple account details
Georgia man Kwamaine Jerell Ford charged with phishing NBA and NFL players' Apple accounts, making over 2,000 fraudulent transactions, and sex trafficking counts.
Kwamaine Jerell Ford, 34, was arrested and pleaded not guilty to dozens of counts including wire fraud, computer fraud, aggravated identity theft, access device fraud, and sex trafficking. He posed as an adult film actress offering explicit videos, then as Apple customer support to harvest usernames, passwords, and MFA codes from professional athletes, gaining access to their credit and debit cards and making more than 2,000 transactions including fund transfers and DoorDash orders. Prosecutors say he ran the scheme while on probation for a similar 2019 phishing offense in which he spent nearly $325,000 of stolen funds, and also coerced a woman into sex with players, filmed encounters without consent, and hacked one athlete's home security cameras. He was held without bail.
- Ford returned to phishing within two days of 2020 home confinement
- Dual-persona scheme combined fake adult film star and Apple support identities
- Also charged with sex trafficking and unauthorized recording of victims
- Prior 2019 conviction resulted in three years in prison
- ATT&CK
- T1566.002 Phishing: Spearphishing LinkT1621 Multi-Factor Authentication Request GenerationT1078.004 Valid Accounts: Cloud AccountsT1656 Impersonation
- Products
- Apple accountsDoorDash
- Threat actors
- Kwamaine Jerell Ford
- Victims
- NFL playersNBA players
- Organizations
- US Justice Department
- Countries
- United States
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The Justice Department charged a Georgia man for allegedly breaking into the Apple accounts of professional athletes and using their card details to make purchases for himself. Kwamaine Jerell Ford, 34, is accused of defrauding multiple NFL and NBA players by impersonating a prominent adult film actress as part of the scheme to steal funds through Apple accounts.
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