If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed or get new posts via email. Thanks for visiting!As a former cub scout, I always think you should be prepared. Obviously Crystal Star Wright of Tempe Arizona believes in that too, because she was prepared for any event.
On March 18, Wright […]

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Somehow Kansas City seems to be a hotbed of identity theft. First the Kenyan id theft ring, and now a KC man has finally been sentenced to a massive identity theft ring that was busted in 2006.
Carlton Strother has been sentenced in federal court to 19 years 6 months in prison and ordered to […]

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If there is some sort of world record for identity theft speed, James Hartman has to be up near the top. In 3 months, he spent $3.2 million on vehicles and real estate. More incredibly, he did this with a photocopy of his brother’s drivers license and Social Security card. A photocopy!
If there is any […]

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A while ago, we posted about a data breach at Hannaford Bros. grocery stores. Now another store has been used by thieves to steal customers’ personal information. The Lunardi’s supermarket in Los Gatos, California was caught up in a debit card skimming ring and thieves have been having a hey-day hitting customers’ bank accounts.
I was […]

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Aside from being the home of Warren Buffet, Omaha was also the home of a identity theft bust that involved 2 police officers, a pregnant woman, a broken vase, and a man getting shot in the chest.
It All Started At A Church
At a church outside Omaha’s city limits, a woman left her purse in the […]

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You know how it goes.. you steal some credit cards, go on a buying spree, but just can’t resist those designer cowboy boots. That’ll always get you in the end.
That’s what happened to a charming pair in Bibb County, Georgia. John Fravel and Sebastian Wooley were arrested at a Hampton Inn in Macon, having racked […]

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Here is another case of a police officer charged with identity theft.
We wrote about Brian Coble before, but this time it is Sgt. Mark Warf - an officer from Rutherford County, Tennessee.
Warf is no ordinary beat cop. He was the lead detective on a number of very high-profile murder cases. He had 23 […]

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Remember how I wrote about the wide open access to many of our confidential records? Here is another perfect example.
Almost 50,000 patients of the New York-Presbyterian Hospital have had their identities stolen thanks to one man, Dwight McPherson.
McPherson worked as an admissions clerk at the hospital and between 2006 and 2008 has been stealing patients’ […]

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So you get arrested and charged with 69 counts of fraud, theft, and identity theft which carries a maximum of 35 years in prison, but your lawyers manage to work out a deal where you only have to serve 5. Seems like a pretty good deal right?
Not if you are Tynesha West. In a rare […]

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Remember about 5 years ago when there was a big international child porn crackdown that was most famous for busting (though formally clearing) Pete Townshend from the Who?
There was one other victim that was about to have his life turned upside down.
Going from Bad To Worse
When the police in the US busted a company that […]

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