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ALLEGED THAT WAITER RECORDED NAMES AND CREDIT CARD NUMBERS OF CUSTOMERS, THEN MADE ONLINE PURCHASES
KANSAS CITY, Mo. – December 11, 2008 - John F. Wood, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced today that a former Kansas City, Mo., man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for stealing identity information from customers at A restaurant where he worked, then using that information to [...]
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MAN SENTENCED FOR IDENTITY THEFT - SEARCHES THROUGH TRASH DUMPSTERS, THEN OPENED CREDIT CARD ACCOUNTS OVER THE INTERNET
KANSAS CITY, Mo. – March 4, 2008 - John F. Wood, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Blue Springs, Mo., man was sentenced in federal court today for stealing the identity of an Army major who was stationed in Kuwait.
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Personal Identifying Information stolen from Car Dealership & Real Estate Loan Brokerage Firm - One man gets 19 years in Prison
Kansas City, Mo. – John F. Wood, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that two more defendants were sentenced in federal court today for participating in an identity theft conspiracy. A 40 year old man of Kansas City, Mo., and a 29 year old woman of Plano, Texas, were sentenced [...]
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STATE PRISONERS CHARGED PHONE CALLS TO IDENTITY THEFT VICTIMS - SOME VICTIMS WERE MENTALLY DISABLED
Jefferson City, Mo.- (March 2008) John F. Wood, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Kansas City, Mo., man who was formerly incarcerated in a state prison and a Jefferson City, Mo., woman who was formerly employed by the Missouri Department of Revenue were each sentenced in federal court [...]
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Computer Fraud - Bank Employee Hack’s into her Banks Computer to Steal Personal Identity Information
KANSAS CITY, Mo. – John F. Wood, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Kansas City, Mo., woman and man were indicted by a federal grand jury for using stolen identity information to make fraudulent credit purchases at area retail stores.
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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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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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First Prosecution Of Its Kind Involving “Botnets”
In April, 2008 the United States Attorney’s Office, Central District of California announced that an information security consultant plead guilty to Federal wiretapping and identity theft. In the first prosecution of its kind in the United States, a man who is well known by members of the “botnet underground” pleaded guilty to federal charges [...]


