Category Archives: college students

New Jersey woman arrested in student loan scam

August 20, 2010 – 8:12 am

LaVada Cruse 23, of New Jersey, has been arrested and charged in a student loan scam that allowed her to collect nearly $200,000 in student loans after submitting fraudulent loan applications over a period of four years.
Cruse has been charged with mail fraud and aggravated identity theft. She applied for 92 student loans between [...]

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College students urged to take preventive steps against ID theft

August 16, 2010 – 7:38 am

College is a time for learning, but for some students, it may also be a time for students to learn they have become victims of identity theft.
More than 11 million people ages 18 to 24 were victims of identity theft in 2009, according to the Better Business Bureau.
However, law enforcement personnel often say that with [...]

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LifeLock review: 20-somethings most common ID theft victims

March 18, 2009 – 12:27 pm

It might come as a surprise, but it’s people in the 20 to 29-age bracket who are most likely to become identity theft victims, according to the Federal Trade Commission’s most recent Consumer Sentinel Network Data Book, released last month.

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LifeLock identity theft protection is especially important for college students

November 21, 2008 – 10:50 am

There is a common fallacy that senior citizens are the most common victims of identity theft. While it’s true they make particularly lucrative targets, the age group with the most victims is that within the 18 to 39 brackets.
A subset of that group is college students, and that subgroup accounts for a great deal of [...]

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