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Category: ID Theft

Ukrainian law enforcement busts phishing group that used 40 sites to steal credit cards

Posted on February 22, 2022 by Dissent

Bill Toulas reports: The Ukrainian cyberpolice have arrested a group of phishing actors who managed to steal payment card data from at least 70,000 people after luring them to fake mobile service top up sites. According to the announcement from law enforcement, the actors used the stolen information to empty their victims’ bank accounts. Read more at…

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Miami Street Gangs See No Hope In Dope. They’ve Switched To Identity Fraud Fueled By Russian Hackers

Posted on February 21, 2022 by Dissent

Thomas Brewster reports: Everybody Eats and its rival, Little Haiti Vulchas, were known as violent drug gangs. Now, as homicides continue to pile up, police say the gangsters have turned their backs on narcotics and are getting most of their revenue from a less risky crime. They’re using data stolen by Russian hackers and peddled…

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Only 3% of consumers freeze credit after data breach

Posted on February 19, 2022 by Dissent

Here’s a statistic I haven’t seen before. Rachel DePompa reports: According to a new study by the Identity Theft Resource Center, Americans know about credit freezes but rarely use them. The research was published by the nonprofit DIG.Works. It found only 3% of surveyed consumers actually froze their credit after receiving a data breach notice….

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Danville Man Sentenced to Eight-and-a-Half Years in Prison for Fraud, Aggravated Identity Theft, and Money Laundering in Two Different Jurisdictions

Posted on February 9, 2022 by Dissent

URBANA, Ill. – A Danville, Illinois, man, Jeffery T. Henson (also known by the alias, Matthew Burns), 44, was sentenced on February 7, 2022, to eight-and-a-half years’ imprisonment, to be followed by an aggregate three years of supervised release, for wire fraud, aggravated identity theft, and money laundering in both Central Illinois and the Chicago…

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North Carolina Psychologist Sentenced for Medicaid Fraud Scheme Involving Minors

Posted on February 3, 2022 by Dissent

February 1, 2022 — RICHMOND, Va. – A Durham, North Carolina, clinical psychologist was sentenced today to 52 months in prison for defrauding Virginia Medicaid of at least $544,067.69 by creating false diagnoses and medical records for Medicaid recipients, mostly minors, and falsely representing to Medicaid that he was providing them mental health services. According…

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US DoD staffer with top-secret clearance stole identities from work systems to apply for loans

Posted on January 29, 2022 by Dissent

Chris Williams reports: A US Department of Defense staffer with top-secret clearance stole the identities of dozens of people from a work SharePoint system to apply for loans totaling nearly a quarter of a million dollars. Kevin Lee, 41, of Chula Vista, southern California, pleaded guilty on Wednesday to wire fraud. Lee, who worked for Uncle Sam’s…

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