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Information presented to the Court at the time of the pleas showed that Fizer defrauded hundreds of individuals across the country by establishing false toll free telephone numbers, through AT&T, under the Black and Decker Corporation and its Dewalt Industrial Tool Company division, in order to obtain customer credit card and identity information, and used that information to order merchandise. From on or about May, 2003, to on or about September 2006, over 42,000 calls were made to at least twenty-six different toll free telephone numbers established by Cal Fizer. According to information presented to the Court, individuals throughout the United States, seeking to purchase products from Black & Decker/Dewalt, obtained the fraudulent toll free numbers by calling national telephone directories. When a customer placed a call to a fraudulent toll free number established by Fizer, they were connected to an individual who falsely represented themselves to be a customer service employee of Black & Decker. During the conversation with the alleged customer service employee of Black & Decker, the customer would place an order for a Black & Decker product and provide credit card and identifying information to the alleged Black & Decker employee. The Black & Decker customers who placed orders via the fraudulent telephone numbers usually did not receive the product(s) they attempted to order. Instead, the credit card number provided during the telephone call was fraudulently used by Cal Fizer, and/or individuals aiding and abetting Cal Fizer, to purchase Black & Decker products or other various products including, among other things, power equipment from Grainger Company and gift cards from various vendors. The products ordered, using the fraudulently obtained credit card numbers, were shipped, at the direction of Defendant Cal Fizer and/or individuals aiding and abetting Cal Fizer, to addresses located in the Eastern District of Michigan.