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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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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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Tuesday, July 7th, 2009
Your Social Security number (or SSN) has always been the holy grail to id theft thieves. It is your most valuable number and the one that fraud artists need to unlock your identity for their own devices. Many people keep their SSN under lock and key -- and for good ...
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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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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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Monday, May 18th, 2009
One of the key elements of stealing someone’s identity is to be able to present proof that you are who you say you are. If the thief can convince the DMV that they are you then getting a license is a snap, which means acquiring loans and credit is even ...
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Tuesday, May 12th, 2009
With all the advances in technology in the world you would think that the banking system could figure out a way to prevent skimmer type scams. Placing skimmers over the card slot to record the card information is the oldest trick in the book. Scammers have been doing this for ...
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Tuesday, May 5th, 2009
The Virginia Department of Health Professionals supposedly had 8,257,378 patient records and a total of 35,548,087 prescriptions stolen from their database. The thief is holding the information ransom for $10 million. This kind of extortion is not a new concept, just last October Express Scripts had their information stolen ...
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Friday, May 1st, 2009
What happened to New Orleans with hurricane Katrina was horrible. Buildings, cars, and lives were destroyed in the storm, something that people will never forget. However with this destruction comes the responsibility for the destroyed property. You can’t just abandon property especially if the property contains sensitive documents that could ...
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Monday, April 27th, 2009
I don’t know what got me onto this kick of reporting stories about identity thieves that you should be able to trust with your information. Maybe it’s because there have been so many in the last month. Here is yet another story about someone getting their identity stolen by someone ...
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Wednesday, April 22nd, 2009
If it wasn’t bad enough that the general public has to be watchful of criminals trying to steal their information and identity, but when the people you trust with your information is the one that steals it from you it hurts even more? I have seen story after store involving ...
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Friday, April 17th, 2009
We depend on police officers to do the right thing and protect us from thieves that want to break in and steal. So it’s surprising to find cases where police officers are stealing from each other. You would think that the people designated to uphold the law wouldn’t be the ...
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Tuesday, April 14th, 2009
In late November I wrote a story about immigration identity theft and the effect it’s having. I mentioned one case out of Colorado that involved the tax preparer, Amalia Cerrillo, the owner of Amalia’s Translation and Tax Services. Well it seems that a judge has ordered a halt to the ...
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