Marsha Elmore of Wetumpka, Ala., the owner of a tax preparation business called Community Tax, pleaded guilty Tuesday to charges related to her use of stolen identities to fraudulently obtain tax refunds, the Justice Department and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) announced. Elmore pleaded guilty to one count each of filing a false claim, wire…
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NY: Steakhouse Waiters Busted in Alleged Identity Theft Ring (updated)
Jonathan Dienst, Shimon Prokupecz and Joe Valiquette report: More than two dozen current and former waiters and their associates from some of the city’s top steakhouses have been arrested in an alleged identity theft ring, accused of stealing credit card numbers from wealthy customers, NBC New York has learned. Several suspects are from top city…
WA: McDonald’s Worker Arrested
Yet another McDonald’s employee has been arrested for skimming customers’ debit/credit cards. Two weeks ago, media reported on a story out of Illinois. Today’s case is from Washington state. Mason County Daily News reports: A 17-year-old McDonald’s employee has been arrested for allegedly using a credit-card skimming device to steal more than $15,000 from customers…
Another data breach revealed in Finland
The third large-scale data security breach in the space of a few days was revealed in Finland on Wednesday, with usernames, passwords and email addresses belonging to about 12,000 users of Netcar, a used car website, posted on the internet. A person claiming responsibility for the breach said they had no links to Anonymous Finland,…
Would you like that card fraud supersized?
Tresa Baldas reports that a McDonald’s employee in Oak Park has been charged in federal court in Detroit after being caught on video surveillance skimming customers’ credit or debit cards at the drive-thru window. It was the store manager who noticed the problem and contacted the Secret Service. Baldas reports: [Teresa] Pulliam, who was questioned…
UK: Laptop stolen from Scottish advocate’s home results in undertaking
A Scottish advocate breached the Data Protection Act after failing to encrypt a laptop containing sensitive personal data which was later stolen, the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) said today. The laptop was stolen from the home of Ruth Crawford QC in 2009 when she was away on holiday. Ms. Crawford noted that she had left…