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Category: ID Theft

Founder of fake prison charity convicted of stealing prisoners’ identity info for tax refund fraud scheme

Posted on February 3, 2016 by Dissent

There’s an update to a case first noted on this site in January, 2014. Carla Caldwell reports: An Atlanta man who founded what he said was a charity to provide indigent prisoners with religious and financial assistance instead used his program to steal prisoners’ identities to apply for millions of dollars in fraudulent federal income…

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UK: Teenage computer hacker who downloaded indecent images and stole bank details avoids jail time

Posted on February 2, 2016 by Dissent

The Sussex Police report: A Crawley man has been sentenced for on-line ‘hacking’ based frauds, and for offences relating to indecent images of children. Aaron Coster, 18, unemployed, of Farnham Close, Broadfield, Crawley, was sentenced to a total of two years imprisonment suspended for two years when he appeared at Hove Crown Court on Friday…

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Defendant in U. Northern Iowa tax refund fraud scheme to plead guilty

Posted on February 1, 2016 by Dissent

There’s an update to the data breach involving the University of Northern Iowa. As reported previously, Bernard Ogie Oretekor (aka Emmanuel Libs) was charged in an identity theft tax refund fraud scheme that impacted 100 UNI faculty members. Now KWWL reports that he will plead guilty and the charges will be transferred to California, where he…

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Wayne Memorial Hospital fired nurse’s aide who accessed patient records without authorization

Posted on February 1, 2016 by Dissent

PA Homepage reports: A security breach at the Wayne Memorial Hospital in Honesdale causing concerns. Hospital officials tell Eyewitness News they have fired a nurses’s aide who they say accessed patient records without authorization. Now letters have been sent out to 390 people informing them their medical records, including social security numbers, insurance information and diagnoses…

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LA: Medicaid fraud case had 13k victims (UPDATED)

Posted on January 30, 2016 by Dissent

Attorney General Jeff Landry announced Tuesday that Keisha Robinson, 43, has been arrested on charges involving schemes to defraud the state’s Medicaid program. Robinson was charged with one count of identity theft, one count of computer fraud, and one count of criminal conspiracy to commit Medicaid fraud after downloading over 13,000 Medicaid Recipient’s information from Louisiana…

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Florida couple ran tax service and check cashing business to acquire identity info for tax refund fraud scheme

Posted on January 24, 2016 by Dissent

Once again, a reminder that the local business you trust with your tax or bank account information may not be worthy of your trust. A Pembroke Pines, Florida, couple pleaded guilty for conspiring to use stolen identities to file fraudulent tax returns with the Internal Revenue Service. According to court documents, between July 2009 and…

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