Archive for the ‘Identity Theft Victims’ Category
Friday, February 12th, 2010
According to a recent report by Javelin Strategy and Research, the number of victims of identity theft rose to 11 million in 2009. In addition, victims of credit, check and bank fraud also rose for the second year in a row.
But it's not all bad news. The reports also ...
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Friday, January 29th, 2010
Identity theft is a horrible thing. It's even worse when that theft gives criminals access to your bank accounts and they withdraw massive amounts of money in your name. But now there's something even worse than that -- when your bank sues over the amount stolen.
That is exactly what ...
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Wednesday, January 6th, 2010
Four Fort Lauderdale, Florida men were arrested in Bensalem, New Jersey for committing identity theft in a crime ring that spanned from Connecticut to Florida. The men were found with driver's licenses, checkbooks, credit cards and social security numbers for around 100 people. The victims included people from Georgia, ...
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Friday, December 4th, 2009
Tashannyo Adena Medley, a receptionist for a Jacksonville Are Legal Aid -- a firm that focuses on providing legal assistance to low income clients -- was charged with identity theft this past week. Prosecutors believe that Medley was responsible for stealing at least twenty clients identity and using that ...
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Friday, November 20th, 2009
Data breaches have become a common occurrence. We post about them nearly weekly here at LifeLockPromotionCode.net. Now a recent study by Javelin Research, a financial services research firm, shows an alarming coorelation between those involved in massive data losses and ID theft victims.
To start, nearly 1 in 9 people ...
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Thursday, November 12th, 2009
When you're on vacation the last thing you want to think about is your house getting broken into while you're gone. For 128 people who visited the Fountain Beach Resort in Daytona Beach, Florida, they were all worrying for nothing. They're houses were fine; it was their identities that ...
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Friday, October 30th, 2009
How despicable does someone have to be to steal their own grandfather's identity? Just ask Arthur James IV, a 34 year old Delaware resident, who just wracked up ten charges of identity theft related crimes for doing just that.
As if just the thought of stealing your grandfather's identity wasn't ...
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Wednesday, September 9th, 2009
The latest scam to take the nation by storm has phony debt collectors contacting consumers and trying to collect past debt. The problem is that the consumer has already paid off the debt many years ago. This new breed of scammers has detailed access to people, including past debts ...
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Wednesday, September 2nd, 2009
A recent court ruling in a case the case between LifeLock and Experian (one of the three credit bureaus and provider of a service that competes with LifeLock) has labeled LifeLock's ability to place credit fraud alerts on behalf of customer's accounts as an "unfair business practice." The Fair Credit ...
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Friday, August 28th, 2009
It was revealed this week that Ben Bernanke, head of the Federal Reserve, and his wife, head of Ben Bernanke, were victims of identity theft last year. Ann Bernanke was at a Starbucks when her purse was snatched off the back of her chair. Included in its contents was a ...
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Wednesday, August 26th, 2009
Heartbreakers was a movie that came out in 2001 that dealt with a mother (played by Sigorney Weaver) and daughter (Jennifer Love Hewitt) team who conned millionaires out of their money. While Barbara Niedkowski isn't Sigorney Weaver and her daughter, Delilah Campbell, is no Jennifer Love Hewitt, they're stories share ...
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Wednesday, August 19th, 2009
One hundred and thirty million. The number itself just boggles the mind. Try to think of 130,000,000 of anything and you'll get a headache. Now think of that number in regards to debit card information. That's right, 130 million account records -- that's the number that Albert Gonzalez stole... this ...
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Wednesday, August 12th, 2009
Computer users have been using P2P (or "peer to peer") network file sharing ever since Napster took the country by storm 1999. While Napster is still around (doing legitimate business) it's sites like BitTorrent, Kazaa and Limewire that have gotten the most attention lately. The more popular these sites become, ...
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Friday, July 31st, 2009
Tom Lesh has been trying to wake from a nightmare for the past 35 years. That's how long that Clark Mower has been using Tom's identity. Tom said he has known about Mower use of his good name ever since he started using it in the 1970's and has devoted ...
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Wednesday, July 29th, 2009
The scary and short answer is yes, at least according to the Florida Highway Patrol.
Linda Norris was pulled over by an FHP officer and when her ID was checked it showed that she had an outstanding warrant for parole violation stemming from an earlier prostitution charge. The thing is, Ms. ...
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