Identity Theft Answers Blog: April 2012

Monday, April 30, 2012

Social Security Identity Theft - Mon Apr 30, 2012

Identity Theft Infographic - As Identity Theft Rebounds, New Infographic ...
Houston Chronicle
Not only do consumers have to worry about financial fraud, there are also utilities fraud, government document fraud, criminal fraud, job fraud and other types of identity fraud to watch for. Keep Your Social Security Card Safe: Don't carry your Social ...

Columbia posts faculty social security numbers on the internet
Infosecurity Magazine
Columbia University has notified 3000 faculty members that their names, addresses, social security numbers, and bank account numbers were available on the internet for two years. The breach occurred when a programmer inadvertently saved an internet ...

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Social Security Fraud - Mon Apr 30, 2012

Identity Theft Infographic - As Identity Theft Rebounds, New Infographic ...
Virtual-Strategy Magazine
Not only do consumers have to worry about financial fraud, there are also utilities fraud, government document fraud, criminal fraud, job fraud and other types of identity fraud to watch for. Keep Your Social Security Card Safe: Don't carry your Social ...

Vol State: Personal information found vulnerable for 14000 students, faculty
The Tennessean
About 14000 students, former students and faculty at Volunteer State Community College in Gallatin had personal information placed on a web server that was not secure. The files placed on the web included names and Social Security numbers, ...

This Week in Small Business: Where Is the Recovery?
New York Times (blog)
Social Security's projected shortfall date is moved up to 2033. President Obama slow jams the news. Russell Investments updates its state-of-the-economy dashboard. Among accountants, confidence in the global economy improved substantially in early 2012 ...
Bakersfield woman arrested for Social Security fraud
Bakersfield Californian (blog)
A Bakersfield woman was arrested Monday for allegedly receiving Social Security survivor benefits from her dead ex-husband's record. A federal grand jury indited Louisa Recatune, aka Louisa Garcia, 45, Thursday for theft of government property, ...

NY Jury to See Video of Man Posing as Dead Mom
ABC News (blog)
In what the Brooklyn district attorney's office called an “elaborate fraud,” Prusik-Parkin and an accomplice allegedly appropriated Social Security benefits, social service payments and a townhouse, all while Prusik-Parkin was dressed as his deceased ...

Social Security Heading for Insolvency Even Faster
KOLO
Reporter: AP Comments are posted from viewers like you and do not always reflect the views of this station. by Ej Location: Truckee on Apr 23, 2012 at 09:57 PM Just the first line bugs me - Social Security is in jeopardy because politicians cannot keep .

Investors testify how they lost money in massive fraud
Minneapolis Star Tribune
Investors ranging from a retiree living on Social Security to a former top executive with Valspar Corp. told jurors in a Minneapolis federal courtroom Monday how they ended up investing in what turned out to be a massive Ponzi scheme run by ...

Trustees report Social Security outlook worsening
USA TODAY
By Kelly Kennedy, USA TODAY WASHINGTON – The Medicare and Social Securitytrust funds are both on "unsustainable paths" — as they have been for years — and will be exhausted by 2024 and 2033, respectively, a trustee report released Monday said.

Social Media Identity Theft - Mon Apr 30, 2012

Symantec: Cyber-Attacks Up 81% in 2011, SMBs Increasingly Targeted
Sci-Tech Today
By Mark Long Hackers stole 187 million personal identities last year, with the average yield per data breach amounting to 1.1 million identities, Symantec said. Identity theftgleaned from lost or stolen PCs or mobile devices also exposed 18.5 million ...

Reporting Identity Theft - Mon Apr 30, 2012

SC agencies reviewing security after ID theft case
Spartanburg Herald Journal
Haley said no known cases of identity theft have surfaced, but that's why the agency is reaching out to clients via ads and by mail. She cautioned patients not to believe anyone who calls claiming to be with the agency. Haley told her Cabinet directors ...

arrested in Lincolnshire identity theft
Chicago Daily Herald
By Lee Filas A Beverly Hills, Calif., woman faces identity theft charges after she obtained and used several fraudulent credit cards, including one belonging to a Lincolnshire victim, police said Monday. Portia L. Parker, 40, of the 200 block of South ...

Phishing Scams Identity Theft - Mon Apr 30, 2012

Symantec: Attacks Rose While Vulnerabilities Fell in 2011
eWeek
“But while the number of spam declined, there was an increase in phishing emails and other scams. Malware is still rampant on websites and in email. Surprisingly, the report notes that 61 percent of websites exposing users to malware are actually ...

Phishing Scams Seen at UD » Archive for Pre-Phish
Phishing Scams Seen at UD. Educating the UD community about phishing scams . Home · Phishing Resources · Report a Phishing Scam · About This Site ...

HomeAway on phishing, peers and professional managers
Tnooz
The vacation rental industry has truly gone international — “international criminals” are directing phishing scams at owners and renters, says HomeAway CEO Brian Sharples. During the company's first quarter 2012 earnings call yesterday,

Phishing victims' losses are own fault - court
The Local.de
Bank customers who give over their account details to "phishers" despite bank warnings against online scams are liable for their own losses, a top German court ruled on Tuesday. The landmark judgement by the Federal Court of Justice is the first time ..

Facebook takes a bite out of cybercrime with new Antivirus Marketplace
VentureBeat
The company has a vigilant corps of white-hat pros working to eliminate phishing attacks, spam, scams, and other forms of “evil” Facebook activities from those who are up to no good. “Nothing is more important to us than the safety of the people who ...

Walmart Warns of Texting Scam
NBC Los Angeles
It's the latest wave of a barrage that last month, prompted Walmart to denounce the text messages as "scams," calling them "smishing" -- the texting version of phishing. Walmart's corporate offices told NBC4 that the Federal Trade Commission has ...
House Homeland Security Subcommittee on Oversight, Investigations, and ...
Insurance News Net (press release)
Phishing scams and IRS scams. During the tax season, in particular, hackers are known to conduct scams that involved phishing --a way of attempting to acquire information such as usernames, passwords, and credit card details by masquerading as a ..

Trending Hokies attract unwanted scammers
Inside NoVA
Websites where you would have to fill out information, a phishing scam. “Some of these people can be very ugly. They can put all kinds of stuff behind those links. So if you hover over it, you'll be able to see the link before you click on it to go to ...
Online Car Insurance Fraud: A Growing Problem
SBWire (press release)
The scams run the gamut from phishing schemes that involve fake sites that are operating only to harvest applicant's personal information to phony operators who are providing completely worthless policies. Also just like so many other scams have come ...

Online Scams Identity Theft - Mon Apr 30, 2012

Local authorities warn of online scams
Brattleboro Reformer
With these transactions, the risk of identity theft is extremely high because the participants provide all of their personal information to the subject. -- Understand as much as possible about how the auction works, what your obligations are as a buyer ...

Session at NACHA's Annual Conference Assembles Key Players in Joint Operation ...
MarketWatch (press release)
... NACHA -- The Electronic Payments Association will assemble the pivotal participants in the coordinated action undertaken by Microsoft and the financial services industry to combat the cybercriminal activity fueling online fraud and identity theft.

Corporate identity theft threatens Maine businesses
Mainebiz Daily
While most Mainers are aware of the dangers of personal identity theft, many business owners remain in the dark about the growing threat of corporate identity theft. The term "business identity theft" describes various fraudulent or unauthorized uses ...

Annual Symantec Internet Security Threat Report Reveals 81 Percent Increase in ...
MarketWatch (press release)
Hacking incidents posed the greatest threat, exposing 187 million identities in 2011 -- the greatest number for any type of breach last year. However, the most frequent cause of data breaches that could facilitate identity theft was theft or loss of a ...

On Computers: Giving advice on tablets a risky business
Oak Ridger
Accept all advice on tablets with this in mind. Most of your questions concern security and identity theft. The good news here is very little data is stored on your tablet and subject to theft. Tablets basically are data pass-through devices, ...
Customers more wary of online ID theft
Austin American-Statesman
Eighty-five percent of consumers think online fraud is a growing concern, Little said, adding that high-profile cases may be driving that response. She said last year saw several significant identification theft cases, including at least 14 major ...

One in 10 at risk of hard drive identity theft
Telegraph.co.uk
Thousands of second-hand hard drives are available online. Photo: ALAMY By James Titcomb Financial details and scans of bank statements and passports were some of the data found on disks available on auction sites such as eBay, according to a report

SafetyPay is Awarded its First Patent from the US Patent Office
MarketWatch (press release)
SafetyPay eliminates fraud and identity theft risk for consumers, provides banks with an additional revenue stream and cross promotional opportunities, and expands their merchants' customer base with an international reach of more than 250 million ...
10% who sell old PCs and phones at risk of ID theft
Aol Money
By Sarah Coles, Apr 25, 2012 A new study from the Information Commissioner's Office has found that one in ten people are making themselves vulnerable to ID theft when they sell on their old computers and smartphones. So what are the risks, ...

Mortgage Scams Identity Theft - Mon Apr 30, 2012

Fitchburg police warn against door-to-door scammers
Sentinel and Enterprise
FITCHBURG -- Police responded twice Saturday to reports of possible scams against homeowners, Chief Robert DeMoura said Monday. People should be cautious against letting any service worker onto their property unless they have been requested to come and ...

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Medical Identity Theft - Mon Apr 30, 2012

9 Alarming Statistics About Identity Theft | Credit Report
Prior to that, medical-related identity theft was not documented, so there may ... Likewise, the number of medical identity theft victims rose from 1.6% in 2001 to ...

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Internet Identity Theft - Mon Apr 30, 2012

Mobile Threats Are Increasing But Are Still Nothing Compared To PC Crime
InformationWeek (blog)
Of the 187 million compromised identities found by Symantec in 2011, about 10% (18.5 million) were as a result of a lost device. This is clearly a big number, but it pales in comparison to the identity theft impact of network intrusions of a more ...

Five ways to make your smartphone more secure
Economic Times
Their widespread usage and ability to carry out various transactions is putting us at risk of identity theft and making us susceptible to fraud. Unlike the password-protected Internet or Wi-Fi connections at home or work, the mobile phones are ...

SALISBURY BANCORP, INC. : SALISBURY BANK ANNOUNCES 2012 COMMUNITY SHRED-IT DAY ...
4-traders
Identity theft has become one of the fastest growing crimes in America. According to Javelin Strategy and Research, during 2011 identity fraud increased by 13% claiming more than 11.6 million victims. This unauthorized access to your personal ...

Symantec: Malicious Attacks Spike 81 Percent
Channelnomics (blog)
Data loss and identity theft also experienced a dramatic increase, with around 1.1 million identities stolen per breach in 2011. While hacking incidents posed the biggest threat to organizations with the loss of 187 million identities last year, ...

Identity Theft Resources - Mon Apr 30, 2012

Mobile vulnerabilities increased by 93%
Help Net Security
Hacking incidents posed the greatest threat, exposing 187 million identities in 2011—the greatest number for any type of breach last year. However, the most frequent cause of data breaches that could facilitate identity theft was theft or loss of a ...

Identity Theft Protection - Mon Apr 30, 2012

Protect yourself against banking scams, ID theft
Independent Online (blog)
And then there's identity fraud, a global phenomenon and a growing one in SA. Between 2009 and last year, 5 940 South Africans were recorded as victims of impersonation on the database of the SA Fraud Protection Service (SAFPS) – 3 091 of them last ...

Best Identity Theft Protection
That's why you definitely need to make sure you have the best identity theft protection in place so that this problem doesn't rear its ugly head out of nowhere one ...

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Identity Theft Prevention - Mon Apr 30, 2012

Paramount Defenses Announces Availability of Gold Finger Mini, World's First ...
MarketWatch (press release)
NEWPORT BEACH, Calif., April 30, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- Paramount Defenses Inc, an innovative, global IT security company, today announced the availability of Gold Finger Mini, the world's first corporate identity theft prevention solution.

Identity Theft Infographic - As Identity Theft Rebounds, New Infographic ...
PR Web (press release)
View the full infographic to learn how to protect yourself from identity theft. With recent surveys showing identity theft on the rebound, CreditDonkey.com, a credit card comparison website, publishes a new educational infographic to help consumers ...

Man reports identity theft to police; another says TV stolen from home
Bowling Green Daily News
A Bowling Green man who is an apparent victim of identity theft told police Wednesday that, No. 1, he is not dead, and No. 2, three convicted felons are using his Social Security number in Florida. Pablo Sambolin-Ortiz Jr. applied to live in Grant ...

2 New Yorkers accused of identity theft
The Hour
They were charged Sunday with identity theft and criminal possession of a forged instrument. Harvey was additionally charged with forgery. They were scheduled to be arraigned on Monday. Information about their lawyers was not immediately available.

Police Blotter: Identity Theft, Thrown Object Damages Parking Lot Lamp
Patch.com
Marcello Pillow, 27, from the 300 block of Menard in Chicago, was arrested around 12:45 pm and charged with forgery and identity theft after he attempted to cash a fraudulent check at the Fifth Third Bank, 7515 Janes Ave., police said.

On Computers: Giving advice on tablets a risky business
Dodge City Daily Globe
Accept all advice on tablets with this in mind. Most of your questions concern security and identity theft. The good news here is very little data is stored on your tablet and subject to theft. Tablets basically are data pass-through devices, ...

Woman sentence to prison for identity theft | US District Court
Bonney Lake and Sumner Courier-Herald
... Mount Rainier National Park, was sentenced today in US District Court in Tacoma to two years in prison, three years of supervised release and $7034 in restitution for conspiracy and aggravated identity theft, announced US Attorney Jenny A. Durkan.

Guard against bank scams, ID theft
Independent Online
And then there's identity fraud, a global phenomenon and a growing one in SA. Between 2009 and last year, 5 940 South Africans were recorded as victims of impersonation on the database of the SA Fraud Protection Service (SAFPS) – 3 091 of them last ...

Valley Stream Identity Theft Suspects Arrested
Long Island Press
The duo used the information to make purchases at Kohl's, Macy's and Victoria's Secret stores, police said. They were arrested Sunday and charged with identity theft and criminal possession of a forged instrument. Harvey was additionally charged with ...

Identity Theft Laws - Mon Apr 30, 2012

Midland suing me for accnt from Identity Theft - Credit and Debt ...
What evidence do you have that you were a victim of ID theft? The reason I ask is ... What is the name of the law firm handling the suit? (should be listed at the ...

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Fraud Alert Identity Theft - Mon Apr 30, 2012

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Dumpster Diving Identity Theft - Mon Apr 30, 2012

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DigitalJournal.com
With recent surveys showing identity theft on the rebound, CreditDonkey.com, ... Shred Documents: Dumpster-diving may not be glamorous or high-tech, ...

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Credit Monitoring Identity Theft - Mon Apr 30, 2012

What you need to know about credit monitoring services, blog
Credit monitoring notifies you the minute that someone is trying to access your credit file. That ...

Computer Identity Theft - Mon Apr 30, 2012

On Computers: Giving advice on tablets a risky business
Enterprise News
Accept all advice on tablets with this in mind. Most of your questions concern security and identity theft. The good news here is very little data is stored on your tablet and subject to theft. Tablets basically are data pass-through devices, ...

Second Hand Hard Drives Could Lead to Identity Theft
Proformative
It went on to cite a study conducted by the NCC group, in which the computer forensics company obtained 200 hard drives, 20 memory sticks and 10 cell phones, all of which were used. The memory sticks and cell phones did not contain anything important, ...

Child Identity Theft - Mon Apr 30, 2012

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IBNLive.com
PTI | 04:04 PM,Apr 30,2012 Chidambaram said the dimension of the security problem Chidambaram said the dimension of the security problem "grows manifold in crimes on cyber space" with offences such as identity theft, hacking, financial fraud, child ...

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Business Identity Theft - Mon Apr 30, 2012

On Computers: Giving advice on tablets a risky business
Peoria Journal Star
Accept all advice on tablets with this in mind. Most of your questions concern security and identity theft. The good news here is very little data is stored on your tablet and subject to theft. Tablets basically are data pass-through devices, ...

Money Minute: A free cruise to nowhere [Video]
Los Angeles Times
... up being targeted for identity theft. That's unlikely. What's more likely is that she's going to get more of these cruise calls at regular intervals, and no matter how many times she asks to be placed on the marketing company's do-not-call list, ...

Car theft business starts, ends on reserve: chinger
Brantford Expositor
When asked whether there are outside influences running the car theft business on Six Nations, Timothy laughs. “That's (crap),” he says. “It's the people from Six. They just don't want to take responsibility.” And it's not just the chingers at fault, ..

Small business tax wrap-up brings good, bad news
Chicago Daily Herald
Tax-related identity theft has become an issue — up 97 percent in FY 2011, according to the IRS. Criminals use a stolen Social Security number to file a false return that generates a refund early in the tax season. When a legitimate return is e-filed, ...

Washington area appointments and promotions for the week of April 30
Washington Post
The Identity Theft Assistance Center of the District appointed Joan Pappas of Bank of America and Neal Dittersdorf of Intersections to its board of directors. KaBOOM! of the District appointed James Siegal, former chief of staff at the Corp. for ...

Sunday, April 29, 2012

Social Security Identity Theft - Sun Apr 28, 2012

Overlooked Social Security numbers pile up
Akron Beacon Journal
But Social Security numbers have become the key to identity theft, a nightmare that hits more than 11 million Americans each year. As we noted a week ago, a Stow woman who was looking at the online records of the Summit County Domestic Relations Court ...

RI AG Warns of Rental Scam
Patch.com
As a result of a case of attempted identity theft of ABC reporter Mark Curtis, Attorney General Peter Kilmartin is warning consumers in Rhode Island of a serious new scam perpetrated onwww.craigslist.org. As reported by Mark Curtis, scam artists are ...

Social Security Fraud - Sun Apr 28, 2012

Reader Comment: Social Security, Medicare Must Be Protected
Twin Falls Times-News
The number one issue constituents have contacted me about recently is protecting Social Security and Medicare benefits as Congress considers measures to address our nation's debt crisis. I am committed to addressing our rising debt and protecting ...

'Real-Life Norman Bates' on Trial for Fraud
Newser
Parkin appeared as his adoptive mom, Irene, in a wig and dress several times to collect some $115000 in Social Security and other benefits, and profit from manipulating a mortgage on a $2.2 million Brooklyn brownstone, according to prosecutors.