‘Space fakers’ spark identity theft concerns (Stuff)
The growing trend of online “space faking”, where users masquerade as other people, has reignited concerns about the safety and security of social networking sites.
Two men facing identity theft charges in Lake County (Daily Herald)
Two Florida men are in police custody and awaiting extradition to Lake County in separate identity-theft cases, authorities announced Monday.
Traveling And Identity Theft - What Do They Have In Common?
Over seven million people in the United States last year alone were victims of identity theft resulting in almost fifty billion dollars of fraudulent credit card, bank, and other financial charges. …
Woman admits identity theft, forgery (Daily Herald)
A Zion woman was placed on 30 months probation Monday after she admitted using the financial information and a check of a Lincolnshire woman to finance a shopping spree.
Thing Before You Post: The Dangers of the Social Networking Profile … Revealed by Jeremy Miller of Kroll Fraud Solutions
Friendster, MySpace, LinkedIn, Digg, StumbleUpon, YouTube, Flickr……I’m a huge fan of Facebook and Twitter. I love that I’ve reconnected with friends from elementary school and can send a quick message to our favorite babysitters when in need of a night out but there are also downsides to social networking. Today identity theft expert Jeremy Miller, manager of the Investigation and Restoration Center at Kroll Fraud Solutions, breaks down the typical components of a social networking profile
The skullduggery and thievery of email spammers
All of us have been deluged with spam, which lessened recently with the arrest of America’s biggest spammer. But now spammers are resorting to identity theft, frontloading their own email addresses with the stolen names of individual email addresses. One of the spammers uses the identity 24873985@jhwoodcharterschool.com, with “bradford.tara@gmail.com” - my actual email address - as the “from” line on their email. So beware of any emails purporting to be from me; more likely they’re scams from
Identity Theft and Privacy Protection
New York recently published a guide which outlines steps consumers could take to protect against identify theft and to help assist people who have already fell victim to identity theft. That guide is available here and may be useful to…
N.L. RCMP use officer’s story to warn about identity theft (CBC via Yahoo! Canada News)
Newfoundland and Labrador RCMP are warning the public about how easy it is to become the victim of identity theft by telling the story of one of one of their own officers.
If you have been a victim of identity theft, could you share your story with me for a research paper?
zipideeedooda asked:
I am a college student and my composition teacher wants us to write a research paper on something that bugs us, so I chose to write about identity theft. In this paper I am required to use resources beyond reading articles and reporting on them, so that is why I have chosen to [...]
Elgin woman charged with identity theft (Daily Herald)
The 41-year-old victim of an identity theft was recently informed by the IRS she owed back taxes on $22,024.40 she earned from two local temporary employment agencies.
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