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Posted By BOB VAILLANCOURT, THE SUDBURY STAR

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All of the equipment necessary to manufacture and forge credit cards -- from embossing machines to foil printers and even blank cards -- were found in a Sudbury motel room by city police June 22.

They also found Douglas Birney, 29, and Joey Alonso, 30, in the room.

Friday, in Sudbury court, Ontario court Justice William Fitzgerald found both men guilty of several charges related to forging credit cards.

Birney, who pleaded guilty to defrauding both Visa and MasterCard, possession of credit card data for both Visa and MasterCard, using a forged driver's licence, using a forged Master- Card and breach of probation, was given given nine months credit for the time he has spent in jail on the charge, and was placed on probation for 30 months.

A date for Alonso's sentencing is to be set Tuesday. He pleaded guilty to forging credit cards, possession of a magnetic strip information reader and writer, possession of a stamping machine for embossing credit cards, possession of a machine for placing foil on the cards, possession of illegally obtained merchandise and possession of the illicit drug crystal meth.

At the time of his arrest, Alonso was the subject of a Canada-wide warrant.

Police were tipped off to the two men's activities by a complaint from the manager of a local home improvement store who provided an identity of the two men and a description of the car they were using.

Assistant Crown attorney Karen Lische said police found more than 30 different credit cards in the room, each with the names Dave Brown and Tony Alvarez on them.

Each card had a unique number on it.

They also found a roll of gold foil tape for use on the cards, several laptop computers, external storage devices for the computers and several items of merchandise from more than a half-dozen local stores, including a laptop computer, a video gaming system, tools, computer memory modules, printers, cameras and a portable hard drive for a computer.

The property obtained fraudulently by the use of the cards was worth more than $5,000, said Lische.

However, the value of the merchandise items found in the room was less than that.

During their visit to the home improvement store, the two men were text messaging each other on cellphones about what big ticket items to buy, said Lische.

Birney would actually carry out the transaction, but Alonso was in the area, she said.

Witnesses told police the two men "wheeled shopping carts full of boxes right to their hotel room door," she said.

When he was arrested, Birney had three Ontario driver's licences, all with his picture on them, but each with a different name.

The original complaint that triggered the police investigation came when Birney took several items to a self-checkout device at the store and used "several different cards" to pay for the items, said Lische.

He also completed an application to receive the store's own branded credit card using the name David Brown, with an address on York Street in London, Ont.

When police checked the name and accompanying birth date, they found no one that matched that combination, said Lische.

In a lengthy interview with police investigators, Alonso said he got the machines and learned how to steal credit card data over the Internet from someone in Asia.

He learned how to use the machines by talking to some Russians he met on online, he said.

"They explained how to hack into banks and get valid credit card numbers" for the cards.

He told police he now believes he is an expert in the field and can learn nothing more from the Russians because he now knows as much as they do.

While retailers in Europe have begun using special equipment to read chip-embedded credit cards to prevent fraud, retailers in Canada have not yet installed the equipment to the same extent, said Alonso in his statement.

bvaillancourt@thesudburystar.com

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