NORFOLK, Va. (WAVY) - A federal jury convicted a man on Friday for 19 charges of bank fraud, wire fraud, aggravated identity theft, and false representation of a social security number. According to a release from the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of VA, Dion Lamont Camp, 40, sp ent years conning numerous women into romantic relationships and then leveraging those relationships to obtain fraudulent loans and credit cards. The Virginia Beach man would then show the women fake tax documents and ask for their help, claiming that the IRS had frozen his accounts. He would promise to repay the money when the matter was cleared up. From 2020 through 2022, Camp caused six fraudulent loans from a national credit union for cars that were either ghost purchased, meaning the car was never purchased at all and there was never any collateral securing the loan, or double financed, meaning Camp procured financing both from the credit union and from the car dealership for the same car, thereby obtaining the credit union loan proceeds and the car. Mugshot of Dion Lamont Camp | Courtesy Western Tidewater Regional Jail During the trial, prosecutors showed that Camp opened shell businesses with names closely resembling that of actual used car dealerships in Hampton Roads. According to the release, he persuaded two women, Jane Doe (JD) 2 and JD5, to open corresponding business bank accounts. Once those accounts were open, Camp persuaded these two women, along with four other women, JD3, JD4, JD6 and JD7, to apply for automobile loans in their own names at the credit union. Camp convinced these women that he could not get a loan himself because his accounts were frozen. He would then promise to pay them back. The U.S. Attorney's Office goes on to say that after the credit union approved the loan applications and provided checks to the women for the dealership, they would then give the checks to Camp. Camp would then use a call spoofing service to make it seem like he was calling from a legitimate car dealership, and call the credit union, impersonating employees at the dealership. He would pretend that the loan was being used for various luxury vehicles. He would provide VINs for the cars to the credit union, and obtain the codes needed from the credit union to release the check, which he would then funnel through the business accounts. JD2 and JD5 withdrew loan proceeds from those accounts and gave the money to Camp. The four ghost-purchased cars were located across the country and never at the businesses in Hampton Roads. They were never purchased by Camp or the women using the credit union checks, depriving the credit union of its collateral to secure the loans. Camp also conned JD4 and JD7, who had already gotten loan checks from the credit union, to purchase two other luxury cars at a dealership in northern Virginia using in-house financing for over $100,000.  Again, Camp cashed the credit union checks, and the credit union was deprived of having the cars as collateral for the loan as these cars were double financed. For two of these fraudulent loans, Camp obtained not only the money from the auto loan check, but he also convinced the women to trade in their own vehicles to help fund the credit union loans. He then sold their cars at local dealerships and kept that money as well. In another instance of Camp's fraud, he purchased a car in his own name from CarMax. This was as repayment for a friend of the family who had given him money for a car years earlier. Camp used false information to obtain financing, claiming he had been a UPS employee for more than a decade. After Camp was arrested and in Western Tidewater Regional Jail, this family friend feared the BMW would be repossessed. Camp called the finance company on a recorded jail call, using another inmate's account in an attempt to avoid detection, and convinced the finance company to give him a payment extension on the loan as long as he was still employed at UPS, which he falsely claimed that he was. According to the U.S. Attorney, Camp also defrauded banks for personal loans. In 2019, Camp provided JD8 and JD11 with fraudulent paystubs with inflated income to support personal loan applications to another local credit union. Both women gave the loan proceeds to Camp, which he again had falsely promised to repay. Camp used JD3's personal information, without her knowledge, to obtain an American Express credit card. He also obtained supplemental American Express credit cards from the accounts of JD5, JD3 and JD10 using the Social Security number of an individual identified as R.D. R.D. testified at Camp's trial that he has never met or had any relationship with Camp. The final charge Camp was convicted of involved an application for a property rental in Virginia Beach in which Camp used a false Social Security number, a fake credit report with a highly inflated credit score and a false IRS business tax filing that showed that his alleged house flipping business, Camp Investments LLC, made hundreds of thousands of dollars a year. It was found, though, that Camp's business bank account rarely had any significant balance, and Camp never filed taxes for Camp Investments. In the trial, prosecutors used evidence to reveal that Camp had defrauded women and banks out of hundreds of thousands of dollars. Camp faces a minimum of two years and up to 392 years in this case, and he is set to be sentenced on September 12. ...read more read less