MAN JAILED IN CREDIT CARD FRAUD
T.J. Wilham Journal Staff Writer
Albuquerque Journal (New Mexico)
March 14, 2006 Tuesday
A California man has been accused of criminal spelling.
Edvin Keshishyan, 29, originally from Armenia, landed in jail Sunday
after a Home Depot employee looked at the back of the Discover Card
he was using for a $1,600 purchase and noticed a dropped ‘e’ in
“authorized” under the signature.
“When you turn the card over, any person that can spell is going to
notice that authorized is spelled wrong,” said Albuquerque police
officer A.J. Fangio.
Late Monday, Keshishyan was in custody at the West Side jail on credit
card fraud charges. He was being held without bond.
Police say that when officers arrived at the store in the 200 block
of Eubank SE, they searched Keshishyan and found four more fake
credit cards. Although everything was spelled right, Fangio said,
the cards didn’t look real.
Still, he said, they all had valid magnetic strips, meaning that if
swiped in a reader, the cards might have been approved.