Archive for August, 2008
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Family Secure Child Identity Theft
Having a baby is one of the most joyous times that people can ever experience. Mom and dad are busy planning, painting, buying, and concentrating on what they will name their new bundle of joy. Little do they realize that they are not the only ones eagerly awaiting their arrival. There are identity theft rings […]
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Laptop Security Creates Concerns about Identity Theft
Identity theft is an issue that increasingly enters the minds of adults around the world today. Living in an information age, we have created technology avenues that most people never dreamed were possible. Yet with each one of those creations we have opened the door farther to identity theft. Protecting your identity, believe it […]
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Help Prevent Laptop Theft with Security Devices
Identity theft may well be a part of how we live our lives today, but we don’t have to go down without a fight. Laptops are often overlooked as a means by which thieves gather identity information about people. The truth is that those handy little computers pose a real threat to individuals and businesses […]
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Medical Identity Theft Can Lead to Death
While credit- and financial-identity theft issues are busy stealing the spotlight and headlines across America, there’s one type of identity theft crime that can be far more devastating. In fact, the World Privacy Forum, a nonprofit public interest research group, reported that medical-identity theft is so harmful to the victim that it can actually lead […]
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Medical Identity Theft Victims - Options - Consequences
Most of the time, when someone finds they are the victim of a fraudulent scam, whether it is to steal their money or their financial identity, there is something they can do. They can contact the appropriate authorities, place credit holds on their personal reports, and even take legal steps against the perpetrator. It’s a […]
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Medical Identity Theft, Trusted Insiders, Billing Architecture
Although medical identity theft existed 30 years ago, it’s easy to see why it was not much of a big issue. Back then, there were no computers to gobble up all the medical history information that was being charted by doctor’s, nurses, pharmacies, and insurance companies, that there is today. Instead, professionals kept paper records […]
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“File Segregation”: New Identity is Bad Idea
If you have filed for bankruptcy, you may be the target of a credit repair scheme called “file segregation.” In this scheme, you are promised a chance to hide unfavorable credit information by establishing a new credit identity. That may sound perfect, especially if you’re afraid that you won’t get any credit as long as […]
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Former FEMA employee steals over 200 Identities
In April 2008 a Washington D.C. man plead guilty to stealing the identities of more than 200 people and defrauding ID Theft Victims and various retailers. The defendant stole the identities while working as a FEMA Human Services Specialist and as a clerk for various mortgage companies. The identity thief, a former Federal […]
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Kansas City winding trail identity theft
2 Men Allowed Into Home to Install Satellite TV turns into Identity Theft
In Kansas City, Kansas three people were charged with wire fraud in May, 2008 in a criminal complaint filed by federal agents who described how they followed a winding paper trail of false names, addresses, Social Security numbers, credit cards and bank accounts. […] -
TAXPAYERS’ HELP NEEDED TO SHUT DOWN ILLEGAL EMAIL SCHEMES
DENVER - The United States Attorney’s office, the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration (TIGTA) and the Internal Revenue Service today released the following warning regarding Internet and email schemes involving the Economic Stimulus Payments.
Wide-spread email schemes, known as “phishing,” that claim to come from the IRS have become increasingly common. These emails appear to […] -
Librarian nabs Identity Thief
A. Courtney Cox, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, announced on April 11, 2008, that a 28 year old man from Granite City, Illinois, pleaded guilty to a three count superseding indictment charging him with Possession of Unauthorized Access Devices, Mail Fraud, and Aggravated Identity Theft. At the time of […]
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This FTC Official has a Solution to Identity Theft
These comments were made by Alan Mercer, of the Federal Trade Commission and he titled his comments; Private Sector Use of SSNs. Once again, we hear some straight talk from an FTC official:
The use of Social Security Numbers has become the de facto standard for personal identification despite intended restrictions upon its use. […]
