If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed or get new posts via email. Thanks for visiting!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 […]

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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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We’ve talked about house theft before, but this is a new twist. Red Tape Chronicles has a post about “house identity theft” via Craigslist.
The post gives a few examples:

The con artist makes a Craiglist ad with pictures of the outside of an apartment for rent. The ad says something like “I’m out of town for […]

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Given that it tax time, and I’ve written recently about how tax time increases identity theft threat and the dangers of tax fraud, I thought it would be timely to have some tax fraudsters for ID Thief Thursday.

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When an identity thief steals your credit and racks up charges, that is bad enough. It’s a hassle to fight the card companies and credit bureaus to prove that it’s not your charge. But what do you do when your debit or ATM card has been stolen/cloned? That’s cold hard cash coming out of your […]

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Often the first clue that our identity has been stolen is a phone call or letter from a collection agency. If you have been a victim of identity theft, then you should not be responsible to pay any debts incurred, but convincing a debt collector of that is something else altogether.
More often than not the […]

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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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The Consumerist has posted a crazy account of how easy it is to hijack someone’s Sprint account. I can’t believe it’s this easy.

We found you can hijack a Sprint user’s account as long as you know their cellphone number, just a smidge about them, and have half a brain. Once inside, you have total access […]

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