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BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (WIAT) — A former U.S. Postal employee has been convicted in for his role in supplying stolen checks to a scam Telegram channel called “The Lucky Shop.”
U.S. Attorney Prim F. Escalona announced that Michael Rowser, 24, of Birmingham, was convicted of conspiracy to receive bribes and conspiracy to commit wire and bank fraud.
“The Lucky Shop” was a scam Telegram channel dedicated to the sale of stolen checks and bank login information, according to evidence presented at trial. Administrators of “The Lucky Shop” would obtain stolen checks from corrupt postal employees and then post copies of the checks on the channel to market them for sale.
When customers paid the channel’s administrators to purchase the stolen checks, their profits would be kicked back to the defendant. Evidence showed that Rowser, a mail handler at the U.S. Postal Service’s Processing & Distribution Center in Birmingham, received approximately $106,000 in bribe payments over the course of a year.