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, November 14th, 2008
Police uncovered an Identity theft ring that stole $2 million from 8,000 sailors from two different bases in Texas. One of the members of the theft ring was a former Navy Petty officer.
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Tuesday, November 11th, 2008
The Aurora police department has arrested and taken down an identity theft ring that was operating out of Aurora and the north Denver Metro area. There were a total of five defendants that were brought up on charges.
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Wednesday, October 22nd, 2008
A inmate in the Multnomah County jail was running a Identity theft ring from inside jail. The inmate was using the phone systems to call his associates who would then make a three way conference call to someone else. Shawn McGinnis, the inmate, would then act as a kind of ...
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Thursday, October 2nd, 2008
Concord man charged of identity theft
A man out of Concord N.H has been charged with Identity theft and is being held on a 1 million dollar bail. Police say that they are not sure if they have the man's real identity. Police believed that the mans name was Ronnell ...
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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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Tuesday, September 16th, 2008
Ming Quiang Luo and Hongmei He were caught at a Sony Style store trying to buy $800 worth of Playstation video games with a credit card that was part of an identity theft case. The dynamic duo were caught because they had already gone to the store once and purchased ...
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