Taylor said Chaubard may have fleeced Bay Area residents of more than $100,000 a year. … We’ve got a lot of victims who are really upset.” “He essentially made his living doing this. Ken Taylor of the REACT task force, a partnership of 17 local, state and federal agencies with headquarters in Santa Clara. “To say this guy was prolific is not an understatement,” said Sgt. Agents with REACT, Silicon Valley’s regional computer-crime squad, believe there may be many more victims.
With savoir-faire and inside knowledge of the airline industry, the French national allegedly used Craigslist to scam Bay Area residents of tens of thousands of dollars a year in phony airline tickets.ĭescribed by police as a “serial scam artist” who used his knowledge of the airline industry to peddle what people believed were cheap plane tickets on Craigslist, the 47-year-old Chaubard was arrested Wednesday in San Francisco by agents from the Santa Clara County District Attorney’s REACT Task Force.Ĭhaubard was charged with more than 70 counts of grand theft or theft by false pretenses, alleged fraud that involved about 35 Bay Area residents. Pascal Christian Chaubard was one smooth operator, police say.
