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Brooklyn restaurant busboy Abraham Abdallah, 22, is accused of using the Internet and the Forbes magazine list of the 400 richest people in America to steal millions from such figures as Steven Spielberg, Warren Buffett, Martha Stewart, Oprah Winfrey, Ross Perot and Ted Turner, says NBC News in a story that first broke in the New York Post. Police are calling Abdallah's alleged scheme, in which the high school dropout is believed to have picked the credit card numbers of the stars off the Internet, one of the most ambitious identify-theft efforts they have ever seen. Charged with multiple counts of criminal impersonation, forgery and fraud, Abdallah is currently being held on $1 million bail. Authorities said he has a long record of arrests for various schemes, and at the time of his arrest was on supervised release for a federal bank fraud conviction. Defense attorney Sam Gregory told the Associa ted Press that Abdallah is innocent and that prosecutors "made an unfair leap from possession of this information to an inference that there was an attempt to take money." New York Police Commissioner Bernard Kerik described Abdallah as "someone who was very innovative, very creative . . . He didn't try to pry. He was very organized."
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