Toronto Police believe the city elite – CEO’s and wealthy entrepreneurs – are having their identities cloned by criminals who are using Linkedin and similar social networking sites to find their victims. According to a report in today’s Toronto Sun: Toronto Police fraud officers said several “high profile” members of the city’s business elite have [...]

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Long Term Effects Of ID Theft

by joe on November 11, 2011

It’s been over 2 years now since Robert Bryant discovered he was to appear in court for a DWI in Grain Valley even though he had never been arrested for DWI and certainly not in Grain Valley – he’s pretty sure he would have remembered. Turns out he had been a victim of ID theft [...]

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Online Safety For Young Gamers

by joe on November 10, 2011

Millions of parents will be buying their children computer games this Christmas – Over 15 million copies of ‘MW3′ and 8 million copies of ‘Battlefield’ alone are expected to be sold during the build up to the holidays. These and other games appeal to our kids (and not so young gamers) because of the online [...]

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Avoid Identity Theft This Christmas

November 9, 2011

The number of reported cases of identity theft is fast approaching 10 million a year say the FTC so the odds of it happening to you are continually shortening. Now clearly having your identity stolen at any time of the year is never going to pleasant but with the FTC estimating the average victim spends [...]

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Child Identity Theft 51 Times More Likely Than For An Adult

November 7, 2011

A new study has found that a child in America is 51 times more likely to have their identity stolen than an adult. Carnegie Mellon Cylab looked at over 40,000 juveniles and found 4,311 of them had been a victim of identity theft. That’s a huge 10.2% for our kids while as an adult we [...]

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Mailbox Thief Charged With Identity Theft

November 6, 2011

A man faces 2 years for aggravated identity theft and 15 years for fraud after he stole a credit card in the mailbox of one of the homes he visited whilst carrying out his job delivering a local newspaper. Andre Tyler from Germantown, Maryland, took the Discover credit card from the mailbox and then activated [...]

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16000 LA Patients At Risk From Medical Identity Theft

November 6, 2011

UCLA has contacted over 16,000 patients and warned them they could be a target of medical identity theft after an external hard drive with their medical details was stolen from a Doctor’s home. Luckily the hard drive was encrypted but unfortunately the password was written on a piece of paper which is also missing. The [...]

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Facebook Identity Theft

November 6, 2011

In a case that could have far reaching consequences for cyber speech, a US Judge has ruled that a New Jersey woman can be prosecuted for Facebook identity theft after she set up a fake account in her ex boyfriends name and then posted comments so that people would believe it was him responsible for [...]

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Illinois Man Steals Step Fathers Identity

November 5, 2011

Willis Yurs has been charged with aggravated identity theft – a class 1 felony which carries a maximum sentence of 15 years in prison. A 67 year old man complained to the Waterman St Police Department in Sycamore, Illinois that he thought his former stepson – Willis Yurs – had stolen his identity and was [...]

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