Meanwhile, in Manila, the Manila Bulletin Publishing Corp. reports: The National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) started expanding its probe into the credit card fraud after uncovering that the arrested Nigerians who managed to hack the merchant website to get vital information of the credit card holders. […] Last Friday, agents of the National Bureau of…
Category: ID Theft
ID Theft Case in Japan
It’s unusual for me to see an ID theft report coming out of Japan. There was the report last year involving Yahoo! Japan, but other than that, I’m hard-pressed to think of any cases offhand. Today’s Yomiuri Shimbun, however, reports one such case: The Metropolitan Police Department arrested Chizuru Asahi, 21….. She allegedly used other…
SSN Relatively Easy to Predict
Over on PogoWasRight.org, I’ve posted about a study released by researchers Alessandro Acquisti and Ralph Gross of Carnegie Mellon University. The study has significant implications for the use of SSN and for protecting against identity theft, even though a government spokesperson responded by seemingly downplaying the findings and their implications. If you would like to…
LOC ID Thief Sentenced to Prison
As an update to a story first reported in December 2008, the Associated Press is reporting that Labiska Gibbs, who enlisted her cousin, William Sinclair Jr., to help steal the identities of 13 Library of Congress employees, was sentenced to two and a half years in prison. Sinclair was sentenced in May to three years’…
ID Theft Arrests in Durham NC (update 2)
Alamance County and Durham police have charged Alexis Brooke Faison with 10 counts of identity theft. Durham detectives believe Faison may be connected to at least 30 more cases of identity theft in the Durham area, according to a press release mentioned in a Times-News story on June 25th. The Herald-Sun subsequently reported that two…
Bits ‘n Pieces
In the justice system: A federal jury convicted Ronald Luis Bradshaw, a physician assistant, for his role in a $7.7 million Medicare fraud scheme. He was found guilty on all charged counts, including conspiracy to commit health care fraud, multiple counts of health fraud and aggravated identity theft for prescribing medically unnecessary durable medical equipment…