Wednesday, April 25, 2012

Social Security Identity Theft - Wed Apr 25, 2012


Dead And Dying Targeted In ID Theft
Dark Reading
By Kelly Jackson Higgins Dead or alive, your identity is always at risk: new data shows that fraudsters use the social security numbers and other personal data of more than 2 million deceased people in the US annually in order to get credit card and ...
Identity theft of the deceased
Examiner.com
It compared various pieces of data including the Social Security Administration Death Master File. Unfortunately, even the Master File is not a complete record, so the numbers reported by IDAnalytics may possibly be even higher.
Grave Robbing: 2.5 Million Dead People Get Their Identities Stolen Every Year
TIME
In 1.6 million more cases, identity thieves use fabricated Social Security numbers that belonged to people who are deceased. The study also identified what it characterized as “several hundred thousand” instances of identity theft committed against ...

Crime Log: Home Burglary and Identity Theft in Kirkwood
Patch.com
At 3:13 pm, a resident in the 400 block of South Kirkwood Road called police to report an identity theft. Unknown persons gained access to the victim's social security number and filed for her tax return. The Internal Revenue Service notified the ...


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