Preventing Identity Theft
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I travel a lot for work. Airports are routine to me. In fact, I know the layout of many airports by heart. Several years ago I was on a layover at O’Hare International Airport, which wasn’t uncommon, and I decided to grab a magazine and a pack of gum in one of the Hudson news shops. The entire...
The FBI is currently investigating a security breach at the University of Rochester. According to the University IT staff, the illegal copy of data was done from an outside IP address. Personal information of 450 current and former students was reportedly stolen and copied to an off campus computer...
Esther Elizabeth Reed, will be sentenced on Feb 11 on charges of federal fraud and identity theft. She had pleaded guilty to these charges in August and faces up to 47 years in prison and $1 million in fines. She was accused of stealing the identity of a missing South Carolina woman and then using...
Lisa LeMieux, 40, pleaded guilty to charges of identity theft and was ordered to pay $10,000 in restitution to the victim. She was also sentenced two years of conditional discharge and 84 days in prison, which she has already completed. LeMieux and her husband Thomas LeMieux met the victim while on...
Mark Sams, 50, was sentenced to 3 1/2 years in federal prison on charges of fraud and identity theft. He was accused of impersonating Noel Haggard, the son of country music legend Merle Haggard. Sams was arrested in July 2007 and also chraged people to take pictures with him. Read more
Alma J. Robinson, 41, was arrested on charges of identity theft, misuse of credit cards and forgery. According to Detective Sgt. Carl Gulas, Robinson has been convicted of the same thing multiple times. She was held in the County Jail and the bail was set at $10,000. Read more
The New York State Consumer Protection Board has launched a new Identity Theft Prevention and Mitigation Program. The new program is designed to help residents of New York against Identity Theft. It makes available the resources and tools necessary to fight the crime and also help the victims...
Christel Ebony Norwood, 32, was sentenced to 30 months in federal prison and ordered to pay more than $27,000 in restitution on charges of bank fraud and identity theft. She was accused of stealing names, social security numbers and birthdates of 49 people from two medical facilities for which she...
The authorities arrested nine people in connection with identity theft and fake identification documents. Eight suspects were arrested at Engineered Air in De Soto, KS. Seven of them were booked on charges of ID theft and one on charges of dealing in False Identification Documents. One more arrest...
The state of Nevada is now adopting the Central Issuance system to deliver new driver licenses. This system is already in use in 14 states and is considered a major step towards combating identity theft in Nevada. The new system uses facial recognition software that can compare new and existing...
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