Lauderhill man accused of role in multi-state, million-dollar fraud scheme

LAUDERHILL, Fla. — A Lauderhill man named Stravinsky Vincent could end up facing the music after police said he was involved in a seven-figure, multi-state fraud scheme.

An arrest report states that Vincent, 18, has a day job working at Five Guys. Police said he admitted to working with three guys ― “Mitch, Mark and Squid” ― as part of the scheme and personally pocketed more than $200,000 from fraudulent payments.

The report describes the fraud as part of a “social engineering” scheme using trickery to obtain critical information from victims that gave the scammers access to their bank accounts, allowing them to wire payments from the victims’ accounts to theirs…

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