Osprey Packs will begin mailing letters to Osprey Pro customers whose personal information was compromised in a recent attack of its online Pro Deals site. The breach, which occurred on July 9, exposed customers’ names, billing, shipping, and e-mail addresses, phone numbers, and credit card numbers with expiration dates. Osprey Packs learned of the breach…
Category: ID Theft
Alabama Tax Return Preparers and 19 Foreign Nationals Charged with Conspiring to Defraud the United States, Identity Theft and Money Laundering
The Justice Department announced that a 14-count superseding indictment was unsealed yesterday, charging JB Tax Professional Services Inc., Jacqueline J. Arias and Jose Bayron Estrada, of Spruce Pine, Ala., along with 19 foreign nationals, many of whom resided in the New Orleans area, with conspiracy to defraud the United States and conspiracy to commit mail…
Security Clearance Jobs Lost—Paying A Sky High Price For Identity Theft
Sometimes we need a reminder as to the costs of ID theft to the victims. I’m referring to the real victims – not the companies or agencies that were the custodians of our information but failed to protect it adequately, but those whose lives are disrupted in long-lasting ways because there identity information has been…
Ten Charged In D.C. Area Identity Theft Ring
Ten individuals were charged in Alexandria for their alleged involvement in a large-scale identity theft ring operating in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area since at least January 2012. According to the 16-count indictment and a related criminal complaint, Janero Blalock and Christopher Bush allegedly recruited women to steal personal information, such as social security numbers,…
When applying for a job = applying to become an ID theft victim
Holding a fake jobs fair to steal people’s identity information may have seemed like a great idea to a Texas man – until he got caught.
Alabama state employee sentenced for role in tax refund fraud scheme
Chequlia Motley of Montgomery, Ala., was sentenced Tuesday to serve 36 months in prison for conspiracy and aggravated identity theft, announced Assistant Attorney General Kathryn Keneally of the Justice Department’s Tax Division and U.S. Attorney for the Middle District of Alabama George L. Beck Jr. Motley pleaded guilty to those charges in May 2013. According…