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Merrill Lynch sues three alleged phishers

Posted on September 15, 2009 by Dissent

Courthouse News reports: Three people posing as Merrill Lynch recruiters conned job seekers into revealing their bank account numbers by claiming they needed the information to make direct deposits into their accounts, Merrill Lynch claims in Federal Court. Merrill Lynch says the three people “hatched a nefarious plot” and created the domain email address “merrilllynchcareers.com”…

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Postal inspectors uncover MassMutual customer data during ID theft investigation

Posted on September 15, 2009 by Dissent

Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company (“MassMutual”) recently discovered that an insider had printouts of customer data that might have been used for fraudulent purposes. In a notification letter [pdf] to the New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office dated September 8, MassMutual Financial Group reported that they had been advised on August 3 by the U.S. Postal…

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Downeast Energy Suffers Security Breach

Posted on September 15, 2009 by Dissent

Downeast Energy in Brunswick [Maine] says that the company is the victim of a computer breach that led to unauthorized access to one of its bank accounts at Key Bank. The personal information of as many as 800 Downeast customers may have compromised as well. Downeast says the perpetrators succeeded in transferring funds out of…

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Man gets 15 years for leading ID-theft ring

Posted on September 14, 2009 by Dissent

Adam Lynn reports: Convicted identity thief Larry Alan Hayes asked a judge for a second chance. What Hayes really wanted was an eighth one, and Pierce County Superior Court pro-tem Judge Eric Schmidt wasn’t inclined to give it to him. […] A jury in June convicted the 41-year-old man of leading organized crime, six counts…

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Former loan officer indicted for fraud and ID theft

Posted on September 11, 2009 by Dissent

A federal grand jury has indicted Emma Vigil, of McAllen, and charged her with five counts of bank fraud and one count of aggravated identity theft, United States Attorney Tim Johnson announced today. Vigil, 48, was arrested by FBI agents at her residence this morning and will be arraigned at a hearing this afternoon before…

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Four Springfield residents indicted for identity theft, counterfeit check conspiracy

Posted on September 11, 2009 by Dissent

Matt J. Whitworth, Acting United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that four Springfield, Mo., residents were indicted by a federal grand jury for their roles in an identity theft and check-counterfeiting conspiracy. The scheme involved false identification documents that were used to negotiate more than $100,000 in counterfeit checks, including thousands…

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