Category Archives: stolen identities

Oregon man fools car insurers over and over in elaborate scam

One of the most creative scams seen by investigators in a long while has spawned change in the insurance industry.
Timothy Devon Huntley Jr., of Eugene, Ore., bilked 11 national insurance companies for $196,854 using an elaborate scheme. The incident has challenged car insurance companies like Geico, one of the companies scammed by Huntley, to revamp [...]

Scottsdale car dealership source of 121 identities for employee

Scottsdale, AZ police are investigating 121 instances of identity theft, all linked to Dominick Joseph Hurley, a car dealership employee, .
Police say between October 2007 and August 2008, Hurley opened $60,500 worth of credit card accounts at Lowe’s and Best Buy using the 121 stolen identities, and may be part of an extensive identity theft [...]

Houston police discover 800 stolen car sales contracts. Better call LifeLock.

Houston Police were responding to an anonymous tip about drug activity when they went to Manuel Souza and Ray Whitmer’s home yesterday. But along with 50 ounces of cocaine, they also found 16 boxes of car sales contracts from the Lawrence Marshall dealership that closed nine months ago.
There were approximately 800 contracts in the boxes, [...]