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Guard busted in $365k ID-theft scheme

Posted on June 28th, 2010 in Identity theft & fraud news

A Georgetown-area security guard was charged in connection with a “a highly sophisticated” identification theft and fraud ring that ripped off more than 200 victims to pay for other people’s bills, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia.

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Identity theft ruling: Set your own fraud alerts (The San Francisco Examiner)

Posted on May 30th, 2009 in Identity theft & fraud news

SAN JOSE — Companies that sell “identity-theft protection” present an alluring but questionable proposition. For as much as about $100 per year, the main thing they do is set fraud alerts that force banks to call people before new lines of credit are opened in their names.
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