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CA: ID thief hits state coffers for $200,000

Posted on September 14, 2010 by Dissent

Julie Johnson reports:

A mobile blood-testing company is believed to be the source of 500,000 California identities used to create fake drivers licenses and checks, investigators said.

A Castro Valley man is at the center of what detectives called a “huge” scheme in which stolen identities were used to create fraudulent unemployment and in-home health support checks that were cashed in Safeway stores across northern California, including Sonoma County.

[…]

“The one thing (the victims) had in common is they all had blood work done for insurance purposes,” Chapman said.

The company, not named by investigators, sent clinicians to people’s homes to take blood samples for purposes such as acquiring life insurance, Chapman said. The source of the leak is still being investigated.

Read more in The Press Democrat.


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