[HIB]Three sentenced in US IT services invoicing scam

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Three people were sentenced to prison terms on Thursday for their roles in a multimillion-dollar scheme targeting payments to IT and consulting services vendors from four state governments, the US Department of Justice said. Among the companies targeted in the scam were Deloitte Consulting, Unisys, Accenture and EDS, now a part of Hewlett-Packard. The defendants were able to divert state payments totaling US$3.4 million from West Virginia, Kansas, Ohio and Massachusetts to bank accounts controlled by the co-conspirators, the DoJ said in a press release. The scheme, which began in late 2008, targeted vendors that received large payments from states on a regular basis, the DoJ said. Co-conspirators located in the US filed documents to create dummy entities with names similar to legitimate vendors, as well as fraudulent bank accounts in the names of the targeted vendors. With information acquired from the Internet and other sources, the co-conspirators completed direct deposit authorization forums for the targeted vendors.

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