Federal prosecutors say a Pittsford father and son are facing multiple charges of fraud and ID theft after an investigation into credit card fraud in the Rochester area.
Talib Hussain and his son Mirza Kahn are charged with bank fraud, wire fraud, conspiracy to commit both and with aggravated identity theft.
Prosecutors say the two applied for numerous credit cards using genuine social security numbers but false names, creating synthetic identities.
They used the cards and lines of credit they took out to make fraudulent purchases up to the limit on the cards. Some were used to pay their property taxes and electric bills for businesses they owned in Rochester.
Between 2016 and 2022, they used at least 32 fake credit cards.
They were caught by an FBI investigation.