Posts Tagged ‘ID Theft’

23 October 2009

TrustedID’s Risk Rating Service

Score Helps Consumers Prevent Identity Theft by Calculating Their Risk and Suggesting Steps to Reduce It. San Francisco, Calif. – October 27, 2009 : TrustedID, the nation’s leading provider of identity theft prevention solutions, today announced the immediate availability of its new Identity Threat Score. This risk rating service helps consumers reduce their chances of [...]

16 July 2009

Student Stole 80 Identities!

A medical student from Chicago is facing federal charges in connection with an elaborate financial scheme he allegedly carried out while living in Portland and studying at Saint Joseph’s College two years ago. He was charged June 29 in federal court with one count of bank fraud and two counts of aggravated identity theft. But [...]

16 July 2009

ID Theft concern after burglary

Burglary of state storage facility creates ID theft concern DayPortPlayer.newPlayer({articleID:”23001″,bannerAdObjectID:”35″,videoAdObjectID:”34″,videoAdConDefID:”11″,playerInstanceID:”24FAD9E0-DC70-2532-414F-7E6F051C4C2F”,domain:”knxv.dayport.com”,rootCategory:”null”,categoryID:”3″,accPos:”CCTVI.NEWS”,accSite:”KNXV”}); Thieves targeted a Phoenix storage facility near 7th Street and Indian School Road last October, taking two hard drives. “We think simply somebody broke in and was after the computers, not knowing anything about what might have been on the computers,” said Steve Meissner, communications [...]

15 July 2009

SecureID to combat ID Theft

“Identity theft and fraud is the fastest growing crime in the United States, and government-issued documents like our driver’s licenses and ID cards are targets for people who commit these crimes. In fact, the BMV today has over 500 active cases of identity theft or fraud.” – Andy Miller, commissioner of the Indiana Bureau of [...]

3 July 2009

Tucson man goes to prison…

A Tucson man faces three years in federal prison for his part in an identity theft ring that stole more than $64,000. He stole the identities of customers from a Tucson Honda dealership where he worked as a salesman and had access to credit information. Read entire article: http://www.kold.com/global/story.asp?s=10638578

1 July 2009

Different Types of ID Theft

We all hear about identity theft in the news and how a national retail chain’s computer system has been hacked or we hear of a new phone or email scheme trying to obtain your information but other wise we don’t give it much thought (unless you have been a victim yourself). But what do you [...]

30 June 2009

What is Identity Theft?

According to Wikipedia, Identity theft is a crime used to refer to fraud that involves someone pretending to be someone else in order to steal money or get other benefits. The term is relatively new and is actually a misnomer, since it is not inherently possible to steal an identity, only to use it. The [...]