Thursday, March 4th, 2010
A new study done by the National Study on Medical Identity Theft polled over 156,000 people and came up with a very interesting figure. A whopping 5.8% reported having been victims of medical identity theft in the past. That percentage translates to nearly 1 in 17 adults or 1.42 million ...
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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 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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Tuesday, June 16th, 2009
While searching through the web today I came upon this story posted by the Des Moines Register: click for article. It seems that a woman in Des Moines was the victim of identity theft and that the person responsible used her social security number to obtain credit cards to Von ...
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