On May 22, 2024, in the District of Maryland, Jamelia Thompson was sentenced to 37 months imprisonment, 2 years of supervised release, and ordered to pay $546,000 in restitution after pleading guilty to bank fraud conspiracy for her role in a business e-mail compromise scheme.

Beginning in April 2016, Jamelia Thompson and her coconspirators utilized the IRS's Modernized Internet Employer Identification Number ("Mod IEIN") system to create various Employer Identification Numbers (“EIN”), in furtherance of a scheme to defraud. Many of these EINs were obtained from the IRS using stolen Personally Identifiable Information (“PII”). These EINs, in conjunction with fraudulently obtained state business certificates, allowed the coconspirators to open bank accounts at various financial institutions for the purpose of depositing stolen and/or altered checks or for receiving fraudulently obtained wire transfers. Thompson and her coconspirators obtained legitimate checks written on the accounts of payor business victims and made payable to payee business victims. Thompson and her coconspirators would alter the names of the payee on some of the checks and deposit the checks into bank accounts they had opened and controlled.

Thompson and the other coconspirators conducted over $4 million in fraudulent bank transactions.

Source: The facts in this case narrative come from the following publicly available documents, D. Md. Judgement filed May 22, 2024; D. Md. Indict. filed Aug. 30, 2022; D. Md. Crim. Compl. affidavit, filed July 7, 2022; and Department of Justice press release dated Sept. 1, 2022