A scheme to sell thousands of stolen Windows 10 and MS Office keys via Certificate of Authenticity stickers has been foiled in Florida

COA labels are small stickers carrying Microsoft product key codes, which can then be used to activate products sold as ...

A Florida woman has been sentenced to 22 months in prison for conspiracy to traffic thousands of stolen Windows 10 and MS Office keys via their Certificate of Authenti…

Heidi Richards, a resident of Brandon, Florida, was sentenced to 22 months in US federal prison for her part in the scheme, ...
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Those cheap Windows and Office keys might come from a federal crime

The US Department of Justice says 52-year-old Heidi Richards of Brandon, Florida, who ran Trinity Software Distribution, has ...

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Florida woman imprisoned for massive Microsoft license fraud scheme

A Florida woman was sentenced to 22 months in prison for running a massive years-long scheme to traffic thousands of stolen ...

Brandon software distributor sentenced for trafficking stolen Microsoft activation codes

A Brandon software distributor was sentenced to nearly two years in prison after a jury found her guilty of conspiring to traffic in illicit Microsoft certificates of Authenticity labels.
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Florida Woman Gets Prison Time for Microsoft Product Key Resale Scheme

Heidi Richards purchased Microsoft certificate of authenticity (COA) labels at a discount and resold them in bulk, in violation of a law prohibiting the trafficking of standalone COA labels.