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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Thursday, February 18th, 2010
Social media has really caught on in the last few years. Starting with MySpace, the ability to share, talk and friend other people on the internet has allowed users to branch out and have more fun online. Now services like Twitter, Facebook, Google Buzz and Foursquare continue to allow ...
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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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Monday, December 14th, 2009
Like it or not your identity is out there. Every time you apply for a credit card, mortgage, loan, buy something online or even go to the doctor's office you're releasing parts of your identity into the ether. And that identity can been scooped up, mishandled or sold to ...
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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 10th, 2009
There's no crime like ID theft during the holidays and nothing can ruin your holiday cheer faster than finding out you've been a victim of identity theft. During the holiday season people give generously -- our time, our money and our credit cards.
We charge up a bundle in department ...
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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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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 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, 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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