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 17th, 2009
"Ghosting" is when someone steals the identity of a deceased person and it's on the rise. While the U.S. doesn't track statistics on "ghosting," in the United Kingdom the crime is so prolific that a person has a 16% chance of having their identity used illegally after their death.
The ...
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Friday, July 10th, 2009
Most people have said, at some point, that government only exists to make their lives harder. While normally rhetoric, in this case, it may be true.
Congress recently passed legislation allowing the last four digits of your social security number to be published on public documents. Though this might not seem ...
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Wednesday, June 24th, 2009
Growing up your parents told you not to talk to strangers. It wasn't because they thought strangers had your best interests in mind and didn't want you getting free lollipops and ice cream. It's because your parents knew there were bad people out there that were out to get you.
The ...
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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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Friday, May 29th, 2009
"To Tell the Truth" may not be on the air any longer (although it has aired every decade for the past six decades), but the game's idea is still going strong. For those not familiar with "To Tell the Truth," it dealt with a panel of celebrities asking questions to ...
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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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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, October 3rd, 2008
A mother daughter team have been caught using fraudulent credit cards to purchase merchandise. Cassidy Janosky, worked at Bank of the West and used her position of vice president of business-development to steal the information of bank customers. Janosky then use the information to open credit cards in the unsuspecting ...
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Monday, September 29th, 2008
September 16, 2008
Six people were arrested in Virginia for identity theft. Of the people that were arrested there was one emergency room clerk, a civic league official and two car salesmen. The group of thieves would steal personal information from unsuspecting people. Then the car salesmen would take the information ...
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Sunday, September 21st, 2008
In Philadelphia Jocelyn Kirsch, age 22, and her boyfriend, Edward K. Anderton, were arrested in December for identity theft after they stole credit card information and bank account information from their friends and family and coworkers.
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Thursday, February 7th, 2008
There are a lot of identity theft protection services available now, some better than others. LifeLock's services and guarantee are one the best.
What sets LifeLock above the rest is that they help prevent identity theft. They'll put fraud alerts on your credit records. And then, every 90 days when the ...
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