NC woman who made $320K from fake documents on Facebook sentenced to prison
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A North Carolina woman will spend two years and three months in prison for selling $320,000 in fake driver’s licenses and Social Security and COVID vaccine cards on Facebook, a judge ruled Tuesday.
Chaiya Maley-Jackson, 26, of Concord, was sentenced to 21 months in prison by U.S. District Court judge Kenneth Bell for selling fake Social Security cards, according to the Charlotte office of U.S. Attorney Russ Ferguson.
According to plea documents and Tuesday’s court hearing, Maley-Jackson earned more than $49,000 in fees from her fake cards and other documents between October 2023 and October 2024.
Bell added six months to her sentence for violating the conditions of her probationary sentence on a 2023 fake documents conviction.
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From 2020 to 2022, Maley-Jackson created at least 400 Social Security cards, eight driver’s licenses and six COVID vaccine cards, earning more than $320,000 in fees, court records show.
Prices of her bogus documents ranged from $15 for editing a pay stub to $150 for a hard copy of a driver’s license, prosecutors said.
Her customers used the fake documents to obtain COVID-related, government-backed Paycheck Protection Program loans, car loans and apartment rentals, according to court documents.
Once Maley-Jackson finished creating documents, she mailed or emailed them to customers, who paid her through Cash App, Zelle, PayPal, Apple Pay and Venmo, McClatchy Media previously reported, citing court documents.