Archive for the ‘Identity Theft Victims’ Category
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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Wednesday, July 22nd, 2009
Social media sites have become the hunting grounds for identity thieves and Facebook, with over 250 million users, is the largest target for most cyber criminals. As most users know Facebook has recently been hit with constant phishing attempts and worms designed to steal user's passwords. They range from official ...
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Tuesday, July 14th, 2009
A federal grand jury laid down three indictments of identity theft to three women yesterday. It is believed the all girl group stole the information of over 2,100 AT&T customers and used some to get payday loan advances.
The bad girl trio was able to collect around $70,000 by using the ...
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Wednesday, July 1st, 2009
We've all heard the excuse that "the dog ate my homework." Now a Arlington, Washington resident is claiming that she had no choice but to commit identity theft and forgery because "the dog ate her checkbook." Sure, it's a variation on the classic, but one the police -- much like ...
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Friday, June 19th, 2009
With Father's Day this weekend chances are you've already thought up and bought your father his gift. If your dad is anything like mine, that's an extremely hard process. Fathers are notoriously hard to buy for, so how much more difficult would it be to buy for two, or three ...
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Tuesday, June 16th, 2009
While searching through the web today I came upon this story posted by the Des Moines Register: click for article. It seems that a woman in Des Moines was the victim of identity theft and that the person responsible used her social security number to obtain credit cards to Von ...
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Friday, June 12th, 2009
There are plenty of bands that want to make it big. However few of them go about it in the way you're about to read.
It seems that a gang of rather daft punks decided to used cloned credit cards from American and U.K users to purchase $750,000 dollars worth of ...
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Wednesday, June 10th, 2009
They say that beauty is in the eye of the beholder and that phrase has never been truer than in the case of Susan Shaw. Mrs. Shaw -- or as some people knew her Ms. Shaw -- is a former Miss Hawaii International beauty queen. Depending on who you ask, ...
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Wednesday, June 3rd, 2009
Businesses around the world are getting swept up into the new Green way of doing things. And for good reason. In addition to creating good public relations buzz and cutting costs it helps keep waste more manageable. But you can go too far.
Recently a gas station in Mississippi began a ...
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Tuesday, May 26th, 2009
Phishing has recently become a very popular sport on the internet. Although unlike regular anglers who spend their time trying to catch the next big fish, these finaglers are phishing for your credit card, identity information and other personal information. And they're getting scary good at it.
Every day these people ...
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Thursday, May 21st, 2009
A Palm Beach County school district cop has been charged with the identity theft of 20 teachers and students. Jonathan E. Kelly, a school district police office for the past six years (and Delray Beach officer from 1997-2000), was using school district computers to gain access to the 20 ...
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Tuesday, September 2nd, 2008
In most identity theft incidents, it is almost impossible to fully assess the damage because it is so hard to track. Most victims of identity theft have no idea how their data was compromised, and many incidents are never reported to the authorities. It is only after an identity thief ...
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Wednesday, August 27th, 2008
A man in England learned the hard way that something as small as a lost credit card can destroy your reputation overnight. Simon Bunce was arrested without any warning one day and put under investigation as a pedophile. Police seized his work and home computers, and all his electronic data. ...
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