It will be much tougher for criminals to steal someone’s identity under proposed new laws introduced to the upper house today. The government plans to crackdown on identity thieves by introducing new offences into law, imposing heavier penalties, while also improving how such fraud is policed. It also wants to frame the offences in words…
Category: ID Theft
(Update) Wheeling police probe thefts from Aldi ATMs
The Chicago Tribune reports: As the Aldi grocery chain removes suspect ATM terminals from some of its stores, police in Wheeling said they’re still trying to unravel the source of unauthorized withdrawals that add up to more than $130,000 taken from customers at the Wheeling Aldi store alone. […] More than 200 debit card owners,…
Wire-transfer fraud poses a growing problem
Doreen Hemlock filed this report last week: Identity theft takes many forms, but Lenny Vigliotti never imagined it would show up as somebody wiring $12,000 from his South Florida saving account through multiple banks to end up in the Ukraine. Nearly three months after he noticed the money missing, he’s yet to recoup the cash….
Consumers Are Ditching The $2.4 Billion ID Theft Protection Market
Andy Greenberg writes: As purse strings have tightened over the last couple of years, most consumers no longer think spending $200 a year on identity theft protection services makes sense. And they’re probably right. A study out Tuesday from identity-theft-focused Javelin Research shows that only about 25% of consumers now subscribe to an identity theft…
(Follow-up) Credit Card Skimming Suspect Pleads Guilty
Following up on a case reported previously: Gabriel Camara, 36, of Washington, D.C., pleaded guilty to conspiring to commit bank fraud and aggravated identity theft. Camara and a co-conspirator, Nicole Ward, paid servers at several local restaurants to capture customers’ credit card numbers on skimmers, officials said. The stolen information was then given to others…
UK: Police quiz 19 over £6m Zeus-related online banking fraud
Hi-tech crime police were today questioning 19 people suspected of orchestrating a multimillion-pound attack on British bank accounts. Up to £6 million has been taken from online accounts in just three months by a gang of computer hackers. They used a virus known as “zeus” to infect computers and capture the passwords and other sensitive…