by Andrea Mella

In California, a man was accused in federal court in Sacramento with numerous counts of computer deception and trickery, wire fraud and even mail fraud for reportedly breaching 58,000 fake brokerage accounts. Michael Largent, 22, of Plumas Lake, was charged in using countless bogus identifications such as Social Security numbers, driver’s license numbers and even used the names of caricature and comic book characters in opening the accounts. He then used the financial statement to take a alleged micro-deposits of a few cents to a few dollars set down by brokerage firms into new accounts to bear out so that users can contact them.