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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Normally when a politician starts stirring things up about a current issue I get annoyed because more often than not they are just trying to score political points. However, this time Governor Jodi Rell of Connecticut has my full support.

In mid-May, Bank of New York Mellon notified clients that some of their personal information including […]

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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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As I’ve mentioned a number of times whether talking about identity theft concerns, new privacy controls on Facebook, or Facebook applications stealing data, identity theft is a growing concern on social networks.
To that end, I put together this video going through the privacy settings on Facebook. I mean most of the protection is there; people […]

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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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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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Anyone who has used Facebook knows all about the non-stop deluge of crazy applications that your “friends” have installed and were nice enough to invite you to install. But what do those applications actually do?
We’ve written about identity theft and Facebook before, as well as new Facebook privacy controls. The BBC’s show Click has an […]

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If you are not familiar with LendingTree, it is a website where you request a quote for a loan and they will provide you with up to 4 loan offers from different vendors. Of course to do that, it is expected that LendingTree will share your information with its partner companies.
Well, according to a letter […]

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Workers at the World Trade Centre in New York, or “Ground Zero”, have had to put up with a lot - difficult work conditions, bad air, and now exposure to identity theft.
Some binners found a bunch of payroll documents in a garbage can behind 115 Broadway. The union attendance sheets listed names and Social Security […]

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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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