Identity Theft Cases, Stories & News
The posts below are all regarding genuine identity theft cases that we’ve pulled from around the country from various local newspapers and websites. As well as going through the details of each case Joe adds a footnote to each offering simple steps that you can take to avoid what happened to the victims in these cases from happening to you.
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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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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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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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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A victim of bank fraud who had $6000 taken from her savings account has had the money refunded by her bank. The identity thief – a woman closely resembling the victim – walked into the Elburn branch of the American Bank & Trust and requested a withdrawal of $4000. A bank teller asked for identification [...]
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When inmates left county jail they were paid any commissary funds due by check from the Greene County Sherrif’s Office. On average 52 inmates are released from the jail per day and most of them with a check in their pocket so the law of averages tells you it was only a matter of time [...]
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Lukasz Kruk was the auditor for New York hotel chain Amsterdam Hospitality Group who own a chain of 8 boutique hotels in the city. As the auditor he had access to thousands of guests private details including their credit card information. According to prosecutors from the Manhattan district attorney’s office Kruk took customers private data [...]
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A court in Fairbanks, Alaska yesterday sentenced Jeremy James Frericks to 3 years and 9 months in jail and ordered him to pay $14,293 to his identity theft victims. He had reached a deal with the prosecution and pleaded guilty to aggravated identity theft and being a felon armed with a gun. The local paper [...]
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