Closing out a record year for identity theft,
the state of Wisconsin mistakenly mailed
out this past Friday 170,000 tax form packets
with resident's social security numbers (ssn)
printed on the outside address labels.
Although Hawaii ranked towards the middle
of all states for identity theft, three new laws
will go into effect starting this Monday to
provide residents first rate protection in 2007.
Discover the Shocking Truth.
All the illicit gains, $1,000,000 worth, came to a crashing
halt when a phone call was made to the wrong person. It
seems the identity thief while attempting to impersonate
a police chief inadvertently called the father of the actual
local New York police chief.
In what lasted for over 13 months, the University of
California - Los Angeles (UCLA) was the victim of
unauthorized computer database access effecting
800,000 people.
A suburban Philadelphia town (Wilkes-Barre) department
of motor vehicles (dmv) office recently was the victim of
two stolen computers containing over 11,000 people's
confidential information.
Who would ever believe your driver's license
is required simply to get pancakes? In a
instance without corporate approval, a suburban
Boston outlet of International House of Pancakes
(IHOP) had invaded the privacy of it's customers.
How is it a man convicted for id theft can orchestrate
a seven state identity theft scheme - while still behind
bars in prison? And, legally be protected from search
and seizure of other people's personal information.
Half of America believes they are unlikely to
become identity theft victims, while even more
(70 percent) would take precautions if aware of
what to do.
In an unusual new update to our recent series on
medical identity theft, a California woman paid for
her cosmetic liposuction surgery using the stolen
identity of another woman.
Identity theft criminals have proven again
they have no shame as a crippled, wheelchair
bound woman was recently served with an overdue
bill for a car purchase she didn't even buy.
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