On June 10, 2025, the Volusia County Sheriff’s Office in Florida arrested 42-year-old Morven, Georgia resident Christina Rimes for her role as a money mule for a Social Security scam, where:
The scammers, who are part of a “Georgia state Prison gang,” made fraudulent calls under the guise of a North Carolina sheriff to falsely claim their victims (in this case, an elderly Daytona Beach resident) were subject to arrest.
In order to “prove their innocence,” the victims will be asked to withdraw $17,000 from their bank accounts and deposit the money into a crypto wallet operated by Rimes.
The stolen money would then be transferred to the prison commissary account for her husband, John William Thornton, who is currently serving a 20-year sentence in Hancock State Prison for statutory rape.
This is just a crazy read, this took place right in my backyard with one of the mentioned victims not being far away. Never expected to read about a scam operation being run from within a prison.
Many people on here said that these PoS were working out of a Georgia prison. The lack of prison supervision in Georgia say’s a lot about how corrupt their state government is.
