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This article brought to mind my one of my uncles. He used to be a cop and was involved in investigations like these for more than a decade. Out of the countless conversations we’ve had on the subject of crime (which is a lot, trust me!) one line stands out to me as particularly appropriate: “Crime comes when there is opportunity.”
This article makes me sick. I can’t imagine being this autistic kid and finding out that someone who I thought was my friend had so unscrupulously taken advantage of me. The way it goes, this teen managed to acquire several credit cards and other accounts using his friend’s Social Security number and DOB. He requested two cards for each account – one in his “friend’s” name, and one in his own. He used his own address or PO box for statements and bills and often included the name of his computer consulting business. This went on for a little while and this poor kid racked up $35,000 in debt!
Luckily, someone caught on and tipped off investigators and the teen now faces 24 felony charges including multiple counts of identity theft, false representation, theft of services and credit card fraud. Some of these charges carry a maximum sentence of five years in prison and a $10,000 fine; others up to 20 years and $100,000.
Like my uncle used to say, “When you play, you pay.”
I am sure that there are a ton of questions, feel free to ask at any point - I am here. Additionally if there is something that I did not explain well, let me know as soon as possible.
Posted by admin
Last month, I happen to click on an email sent to me through my yahoo mail about a big money that a certain bank will transfer to my account. As usual they wanted all of the info like credit card number, bank account number, phone number, etc.
This is “as mentioned in the message ” to expedite the transfer of the said money. Who even looks at these emails any more? But I admit that it’s so tempting - what would I do with a million bucks?
One of the most common methods identity thieves and cybercriminals use to steal personal information is the use of”phishing”. Phishing is a form of social engineering that uses email or instant messages that appear to be from a fmancial institution, government agency, internet based company such as Ebay, or any business that you trust and/or do business with. The intent of the phishing communication is to deceive you into divulging personal informations.
My advice - unless you request the information don’t fill in any form sent to you by “your” bank, your credit union or other financial institution. Also don’t call the 800 number listed on the email - its routed to them and they pretend to be from the bank! The safest thing to do is to go to the actual website of your bank by typing the address in yourself into the address bar and checking to see if its a real email.
Love it.. Be safe out there.
Posted by Kevin
I like the issue of Times Daily .com of June 1, 2009 written by Tom Smith, Senior Staff Writer. Compelling everyone’s awareness to avoid Identity Theft which is at epidemic status according to the Federal Trade Commission.
They say that identity theft was up to 50 percent increase from 2007 to 2008. Not just one or two states, but every state saw an increase of this type of crime.
Federal experts say identity theft starts with the misuse of personal identifying information such as name and Social Security number, credit card numbers or other financial account information.
It was cool to read how some of the thieves obtained the information and there were some good tips to prevent Identity Theft.
http://www.timesdaily.com/article/20090601/ARTICLES/906015025/1011/NEWS?Title=Identity-theft-a-growing-problem-
Posted by Kevin
Not like I don’t have my own issues to deal with but I was reading an article about how there may be a huge increase in Identity Theft because of the Bailout.
Most of the article is about how a downturn in the economy causes people to take more chances and resort to crime. And how the “safest” crimes are identity theft. No gun required to steal a few thousand bucks!
I also feel that as Banks and other financial institutions merge these huge systems that the chance for peoples information to get leaked is much higher. Think of all the machines that have sensitive information and the branches that are closing. What exactly happens to this information?
When people get fired and the branches close who keeps our data private?
http://www.ngrguardiannews.com/business/article01/indexn2_html?pdate=080309&ptitle=Economic%20Downturn:%20Fears%20Over%20ID%20Theft%20As%20Banks%20Restructure
Posted by Kevin
Check this out, two sisters get arrested for stealing a debit card and using it. They stole the card from a friend. They used it to by gas and food. The total came to less than $400 buck but they are hopefully going to go to jail for this.
It’s crazy to think that even you friends can steal from you.
http://www.wboc.com/Global/story.asp?S=9968213&nav=MXEF
Posted by admin
A woman was sentenced to 12 years in prison after she lieft to the court about having cancer. It was her attempt to get a lighter sentence to her scam in which she ripped off small business owners in an identity theft crime.
http://www.9news.com/news/article.aspx?storyid=111279&catid=188
Posted by Kevin
One of the easiest lessons that I learned in the process of repairing my credit is that a lot of what I did like keeping my social security card in my wallet, just dumping old bills into the trash and tossing unopened credit card offers are the easiest way to have your credit stolen.
I use a cross cut shredder - just search Google for it and you can find one for about $100 bucks. Get a shredder that can handle 10-15 pieces at a time, it will save you a ton of effort and it will mulch trough used credit cards and those huge stacks of credit card statements that you have laying around.
Posted by Kevin
Looks like the government is at it again. The FAA has had a huge data loss. They are doing their best to keep our information safe.
There were 48 files that were breached from a server containing information on over 45,000 FAA employees and retirees.
You can read more about it on the FAA website at - http://www.faa.gov/news/press_releases/news_story.cfm?newsId=10394
Posted by Kevin
Today I got a phone call from American Express to let me know that they are reducing my credit limit. I asked them if I was late on any payments and she said about 18 months ago I was late.
So now I was getting a little worried, what exactly had I done - I thought that this was a Phishing attempt,, perhaps a way for me to give up some personal information over the phone.
She said that I could just login to my account online, assured me that it was accurate and they would be reducing my credit limit. They (AMEX) had revieved my credit balance, my OTHER credit card balances and determined that eventhough I have not been late - I am a CREDIT RISK.
So I am now about about $8,400 in credit card limit and my current balance is about a quarter of that. If anyone knows what can be done please let me know. This is shit.
It is not as bad as these other people that I found on Google -
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20081112180702AAaWR7G - Hers was lowered to below her current balance!
http://www.thenewstribune.com/business/story/541160.html
Posted by Kevin
These crack articles just crack me up! We all try to spend time protecting ourselves from the “unknown” thief you know, the person that finds a wallet, or takes mail from your mailbox and uses the information. But how about the thief that is in your family. This guy steals information from a family member and buys a Jeep Cherokee and charges a few thousand dollars on their cards.
So how does this work, oh look uncle Cory just got a new Jeep and Mary just had her identity stolen by a guy who bought a new jeep. Thank goodness my family is not this screwed up.
http://www.thestarpress.com/article/20090102/NEWS06/90102017/1002/NEWS01