Monday, December 1st, 2008
Having your identity stolen by anyone can be devastating. It’s even worse when the person who’s stealing your identity is related to you. Having a brother-in-law or sister-in-law can be great, but what happens when it’s not? Well Polly Waters found that out when her sister-in-law stole her identity.
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Friday, November 28th, 2008
There has been a possible identity theft out of Weber State University. Bandits broke into the campus post office where 3 computers were stolen as well as the registration cards for the P.O. boxes. The registration cards had personal information on them that included the person’s social security number. The ...
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Thursday, November 27th, 2008
When most people think about identity theft they imagine someone stealing information and then using it to steal money. What if identity theft meant someone ruining your credit so your business wouldn’t survive. In some cases the identity thief doesn’t even want to steal your money but is happy ...
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Wednesday, November 26th, 2008
Four men were arrested in a very well planned and executed identity theft that attacked victims home equity lines of credit. The Identity theft ring was able to extract more that $2.5 million from different home equity lines of credit. There were dozens of banks that fell victim to the ...
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Tuesday, November 25th, 2008
The holiday season is a time to celebrate the love of family and friends. Not many people are worried about their identity when the holidays come around. Unfortunately the holidays are a great time for identity thieves to steal from you. The holiday season is filled with thieves that are ...
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Monday, November 24th, 2008
I feel that people don’t realize how easy it is for people to steal your credit card information. How often do you give your credit card or check card to someone at a business? Do you know what they do with it once they take it? You assume that they ...
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Sunday, November 23rd, 2008
Identity thieves are many times hard to find. What makes it hard is the fact that you can’t really trust the names that you get when investigating the crimes. An identity theft will most likely have more than one identity and tend to operate anonymously through them. This makes it ...
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Saturday, November 22nd, 2008
A man from Baltimore is suing three different businesses for not protecting his identity like he feels they should have. Gregory Peel is suing a mortgage company and two car dealerships for failing to confirm Mr. Peel’s identity when selling cars to a man that had stolen his identity.
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Friday, November 21st, 2008
Identity theft and immigration has always been a problem. Illegal immigrants come over the border and need to have social security numbers in order to get work or file tax returns. They can’t go through the legal forms of obtaining an identification number because of money issues or the fear ...
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Thursday, November 20th, 2008
Audits are done to insure that businesses are running the way they should and nothing is overlooked in the processes that happen in the office. Audits can be great if they actually bring about change for the better rather than just disrupting the office’s dynamic. An audit of the Pinellas ...
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Wednesday, November 19th, 2008
I wrote a story on November 9th about Express Scripts, one of the largest pharmacy processors, is being extorted by identity thieves. They received a letter in October from the thieves saying that they were going to release the information of millions if they were not paid. Express Scripts ...
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Tuesday, November 18th, 2008
What is the true cost of identity theft? Is it just material possessions and money that are stolen by a thief or is it more than that? It’s one thing to have someone steal your money but what if he or she committed crimes using your name? What if ...
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Monday, November 17th, 2008
A man from St. Paul Minnesota has been charged with seven felony tax crimes and at least one account of identity theft. Johnny Opara, 55, was charged with three counts of filling false property tax returns. He was also charged with four counts of filing false property and rent credit ...
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Monday, November 17th, 2008
In the middle of October I wrote a story about a couple that went on an identity theft spree and traveled all over the world on other people’s bank accounts. The story was about Edward K, Anderton and his girlfriend Jocelyn Kirsch. Together they traveled to several different countries on ...
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Saturday, November 15th, 2008
Thousands of children have been put at risk for identity theft after a backup computer was stolen from a storage facility in Arizona. The thieves broke into a number of storage containers and ended up stealing a computer that had the information on it. The information that was stored on ...
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