Tom Snowdon reports: Officers from Taskforce Maxima’s criminal economy unit today charged a 47-year-old man with one count of fraud following an investigation into the Middle Eastern-run identity theft operation. Detective Inspector Phillip Stevens said it will be alleged the syndicate had reaped more than a million dollars from financial institutions over the last six…
Category: ID Theft
FL: Federal Jury Finds Husband And Wife Guilty Of Operating A Clinic To Defraud Medicare
Here’s another case where patients knowingly participated in a Medicare fraud scheme, so I wouldn’t consider them victims (even though law enforcement never seems to prosecute them as criminals or co-conspirators). I think that the real victims here were the doctors whose identity information was misused to support the scheme and the insurance carrier who paid…
SC: Ex-Williamsburg County sheriff sentenced in $11 million ID theft scam
There’s a follow-up to a case that had puzzled me when I first noted it in September last year as it involved the fraudulent creation of ID theft victim reports to get Equifax to forgive debts. People had no idea that victim reports were being created in their names. Rod Overton reports: United States Attorney Bill…
Identity theft allegedly occurs at hospital
Another case of medical identity theft, it seems. Seen on Salina.com: A 45-year-old California woman reported that when she tried to purchase a house in Hemet, Calif., she was denied the loan because of a $10,000 debt she allegedly owed to Salina Regional Health Center that showed up on her credit report. Manuela Chavez said…
Marco Rubio, Ted Yoho Introduce Legislation To Combat Electronic I.D. Theft
Rejoice Magazine reports: With Tax Day approaching, U.S. Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL) and Congressman Ted Yoho (R-FL) today introduced legislation requiring the Secretary of the Treasury to implement tougher security measures in the electronic tax return filing process in order to prevent tax refund fraud. This would include but not be limited to the use…
KY: Former Health Care Worker Arrested For Identity Theft
LEX18 reports: On Friday, the Lee County Sheriff’s Office served an arrest warrant on a Lee County woman, following an investigation by the Kentucky State Police. The initial investigation alleges that Marsha Cook, 51 years old of Beattyville, stole the identities of two elderly females and received student loans totaling more than $50,000. Cook, who…