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Florida woman gets 2 year sentence for trafficking Microsoft software labels

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Feed Name: The Record from Recorded Future News

Date Published: 2026-03-03

Date Updated: 2026-05-01

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A Florida woman, Heidi Richards, was sentenced to 22 months in federal prison and ordered to pay a $50,000 fine after prosecutors found she operated Trinity Software Distribution and trafficked genuine Microsoft COA labels from 2018–2023. Richards and co-conspirators purchased tens of thousands of COA stickers, extracted product activation keys into spreadsheets, and sold the keys in bulk worldwide, wiring more than $5.1 million to a supplier; federal law prohibits selling COA labels separately from the licensed software and hardware.

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