It seems like we were just talking about paper breaches and ID theft. Oh yeah, we were. Here’s another case from WFTV News today: A Seminole County man was arrested Wednesday night for allegedly stealing mail and using that information to make fake I.D.s and checks. Florida Department of Law Enforcement (FDLE) agents arrested Leonard…
Category: ID Theft
AU: One in five fall victim to ID theft
Nick Gardner reports: The identity crimes report, which was commissioned by credit company Veda Advantage and conducted by Galaxy Research, found more than 1.5 million people’s credit cards had been skimmed and 1.2 million people’s bank accounts were illegally accessed. Many more people’s mail containing PINs and other information that can be used to create…
Canada: Two Brampton men charged in identity thefts
Tamara Baluja reports: Two men have been arrested in a major identity theft case that spread across the country, says the RCMP. The Mounties’ GTA Commercial Crime Section recovered “hundreds of thousands of dollars” worth of driver’s licences, credits cards, debit cards and cheques, said Inspector Art Pittman. “It is one of our largest files….
Former Army finance technician sentenced for ID theft
Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that Reynaldo Jimenez was sentenced to 42 months in prison for theft of identity information belonging to over 35 active duty U.S. military service members he then used to steal pay due to those service members. United States District Judge John…
Two men indicted for ID theft and wire fraud
A federal grand jury had indicated a Georgia man and a Maryland man on charges they possessed 15 or more counterfeited credit cards and equipment for making fraudulent credit or bank-debit cards, United States Attorney Joyce White Vance announced. Sinzinkayo Haji Sinzinkayo, 38, of Jonesboro, Ga., and Damilola Odegbile, also known as “Tony Allen,” 22,…
Florida man sentenced for ID theft
Richard L. Marzullo, 56, Orlando, Florida, was sentenced to 70 months imprisonment yesterday by U.S. District Judge Richard L. Young following his guilty plea to aggravated identity theft, wire fraud, interstate transport of stolen property and conspiracy, announced Timothy M. Morrison, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Indiana. Marzullo admitted that he purchased…