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Category: ID Theft

NY: Woman charged with identity theft in misuse of co-workers’ information

Posted on February 4, 2016 by Dissent

I occasionally receive requests to remove an old article or redact people’s names. “I’ve done my time and am trying to turn my life around,” is the usual reason. And while I understand that, the policy of this site is NOT to remove old articles or redact names unless the person was acquitted. There is…

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Second Tampa General Hospital employee charged in patient identity theft for tax refund fraud scheme

Posted on February 4, 2016 by Dissent

There’s an update to a case first noted on this site in July, 2013. The Tampa Tribune reports that Shakania Benton, 37, a former Tampa General Hospital unit coordinator for the hospital’s main operating room, has been indicted on charges she disclosed patient information in connection with a stolen identity tax refund fraud scheme. Previously,…

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CA: Davis Apartment Manager Accused of ID Theft; Police Suspect More Victims

Posted on February 4, 2016 by Dissent

Lonnie Wong reports: Davis police investigators say they believe there are many more victims of an apartment manager who was arrested on suspicion of stealing the identities of prospective tenants. William Raymond Stanley, Jr., was known as Erik Hamilton to tenants and the owners of the Tuscany Villas Apartments in East Davis. But the 30-year-old…

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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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