August 18, 2010 – 7:49 am
Richard L. Schrodt, 21, of Mesa, Ariz., was arrested and charged with suspicion of identity theft and forgery Aug. 18 – which is bad enough. What makes it worse is that his victim is a soldier serving in Iraq.
Schrodt and his victim, Richard Burke, attended the same high school, knew each other, and even looked [...]
August 12, 2010 – 8:05 am
Steven Nelson, 29, has been charged in a federal court with conspiring to submit false claims for federal tax refunds as part of an identity theft scam that targeted childhood cancer patients.
Nelson and his co-conspirators stole data from the files of several health care institutions, including pediatric cancer centers, to file for refunds under the [...]
Millions of Americans use Amazon.com every day to make purchases, and identity thieves know this. That’s why they’ve targeted their latest phishing scam to utilize the popular shopping site to gain the personal information of unsuspecting shoppers.
Phishing is the criminally fraudulent process of attempting to acquire sensitive information such as user names, passwords and credit [...]
August 21, 2009 – 1:53 pm
It’s all a matter of supply and demand. Pickpockets and small-time hackers were once the only source for a meager supply of stolen credit cards and credit card data, and prices were correspondingly high; in the mid-1970s, buyers routinely paid as much as $20 for a single credit card record.
But that was then. Now the [...]
LifeLock has been named a finalist in 18 categories for The 2009 American Business Awards, known as “the Stevies”.
In case you’re not familiar with the Stevies, they are what the New York Post called “the business world’s own Oscar Awards.” The awards’ name is taken from the name Stephen, which is derived from the Greek [...]
January 9, 2009 – 1:04 pm
The short answer is an emphatic “Yes”. The long answer is that LifeLock is not only valid, it’s the best, most comprehensive, most innovative identity theft protection service available. All of which explains why LifeLock is the ID protection service chosen by nearly 1.5 million Americans. And, of course, they have the Better Business Bureau’s [...]
October 29, 2008 – 11:27 am
Mikhail Tuknov, of San Diego, has been indicted on 44 charges of debit card fraud, conspiracy to launder money and ID theft. The indictment alleges that Tuknov was part of an international identity theft ring responsible for the theft of approximately 1,045 debit card numbers and their associated personal identification numbers.
The crimes in which Tuknov [...]
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