Luther Clay, Josephine Cowles and Glen Apling are three U.S. citizens who all died in 1983. Somehow they and over 1,000 other deceased individuals managed to file tax returns in 2006. “It’s a very, very sophisticated scheme,” Arizona’s district U.S. Attorney, Dennis Burk, said at a press conference Thursday morning. Burk’s office began investigating this…
Category: ID Theft
Speedy Tax Refunds, but to Identity Thieves, Suit Says
Andy Newman reports that police suspect an H & R Block employee of misusing customer data to obtain fraudulent refunds. Former customers who have been affected filed a lawsuit against H & R Block this week. Read more in the New York Times.
MN: Wave of identity theft hits Stillwater residents
Kevin Giles reports: Credit card numbers stolen from a Stillwater bar and restaurant were being used worldwide Wednesday with charges in some cases approaching $1,200. “Right now there are several victims,” said Police Chief John Gannaway. More people were calling his department in the morning after a Stillwater resident posted a warning on Facebook. Read…
Woman charged with using Tulsa hospital information in fraud plot
David Harper reports: A Sand Springs woman has been indicted on allegations that she used personal identifying information she garnered from her then-employer’s computer system as part of a fraudulent credit card and stolen mail scheme. Betty R. Warden, 45, exceeded her authorized computer-access authority at St. Francis Hospital to obtain things such as Social…
IL: Detectives solve ID thefts; victims ate at same restaurant
Madison County sheriff’s detectives say their big break in solving a string of identity-theft cases was when they learned all four victims dined recently at the same restaurant – Amarillo Tex’s Steakhouse. The information from their credit cards was stolen using a small device called a “skimmer.” Detectives learned that an employee of the restaurant…
Stockton man sentenced for bank fraud, aggravated ID theft, stealing mail
Sai Samone Soulyalangsy, 26, of San Joaquin County, was sentenced in federal court this week to 39 months in prison, to be followed by five years of supervised release, and restitution of $39,471.03 for multiple felony bank fraud and identity theft charges. This case was the product of an investigation by the U.S. Postal Inspection…