Archive for the ‘identity theft’ Category
Friday, March 12th, 2010
LifeLock, an industry leader in proactive identity theft protection, and the FBI Law Enforcement Executive Development Association have partnered to offer identity theft awareness seminars to law enforcements officials in Charlotte, Spokane and Seattle. These summits are intended to help law enforcement better identify and be aware of identity ...
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Tuesday, February 23rd, 2010
Think of it as a bargain warehouse club for criminals. For a nominal fee between $7,000 to $10,000, felons and other enigmatic individuals were able to purchase brand new identity packages for themselves -- complete with birth certificates, Social Security cards, work identification documents and, as a final coup de ...
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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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Friday, January 15th, 2010
It sounds like a drama plot from a television show: a character, used to his high-frills lifestyle, gets wrapped up in the wrong crowd and eventually in over his head. Except this story wasn't written by a member of the writer's guild and it didn't air during prime time ...
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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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Tuesday, November 3rd, 2009
Parents tell their kids "you can grow up to be whatever you want to be" all the time. Maybe it's time to rethink that or, at the very least, add a disclaimer. "You can grow up to be whatever you want to be*... *as long as it involves being ...
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Tuesday, October 27th, 2009
When you hear stories that involve identity theft between a woman and her nanny, one would normally draw the conclusion that the nanny is stealing from the mother. Most likely visions of Rebecca De Mornay and scenes from Hand that Rocks the Cradle flash through your head. This time ...
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Tuesday, October 13th, 2009
Nearly every week another story about irresponsibly handled documents containing vital personal information comes out. This is another one of those stories and would have followed the same path if not for one responsible man.
Billy Tookoian is a landlord in San Francisco. Last year one of the businesses renting ...
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Friday, October 9th, 2009
One hundred Egyptians and Americans were indicted Wednesday in what federal agents are calling one of the largest cybercrime cases ever. Fifty-three of those charged are living in the United States while the remaining hail from Egypt. In a speech on Wednesday, FBI Director Robert Mueller said that fifty ...
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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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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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Friday, July 24th, 2009
Congress recently passed legislation that allowed the government to publish the last four digits of an individual's social on public documents. The timing couldn't have been worse, as just a few days earlier researchers at Carnegie Mellon announced that they found a formula that allowed them to correctly guess the ...
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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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