Doru gabriel trifu biography
Trifu, a Romanian non-immigrant residing in Orangevale, Calif., was part of the fraud scheme in which consumer items were listed for sale via.
Romanian national Doru Gabriel Trifu, 29, has been ordered to federal prison following his convictions on 33 counts of wire fraud in an Internet fraud scheme..
A Romanian man accused of defrauding people of more than $, on eBay and Craigslist was convicted in a Victoria federal courtroom late Wednesday.
A jury found Doru Gabriel Trifu, 28, guilty of 33 counts of fraud by wire, radio or television.
Senior Judge John Rainey, who presided over the trial, set Trifu's sentencing for Dec.
2. Trifu faces a maximum of 20 years in prison and a possible $, fine on each count.
Trifu told his victims he was a U.S. soldier preparing for combat deployment to the Middle East. He never spoke with them over the phone, only by email because he needed to sell the item quickly.
He would instruct the victim to send the money via MoneyGram, and an escrow agent would accept the funds, complete the transaction and deliver the item.
The item would never be delivered, according to the affidavit of probable cause.
Homeland Security agents learned a man wearing an Adidas-brand baseball cap used invalid passport numbers to collect the money from Wal-Mart stores i
