WSFA reports: A woman whose job specialized in assisting medical patients has been charged with identity theft, according to the Dothan Police Department. Dothan Police say Malika Shanta Oliver, 40, is charged with trafficking stolen identities. An investigation revealed Oliver was employed by a company called MedAssist which specializes in assisting medical patients with insurance…
Category: ID Theft
Feds: $12 million ID theft scam used personal info bought online, acquired from FAFSA website
CBS reports: Two people were indicted on federal charges related to a $12 million scam in which they stole identities in order to file fake tax returns and profit from the refunds. Taiwo K. Onamuti, 29, Doraville, Ga., and Muideen A. Adebule, 49, Indianapolis, face 23 federal charges including aggravated identity theft, identity theft, false…
Anthem, AmEx, PayPal, Must Face ID Theft Suit in Calif.
Jimmy H. Koo reports: Health insurance, financial services, and payment card companies failed to keep a California attorney’s identify theft lawsuit in federal court and must face the allegations back in state court, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California held May 31 ( Gallo v. Unknown No. of Identity Thieves ,…
Woman stole info of 150 patients at Charlotte area medical practice
Joe Marusak reports: A Charlotte woman on Wednesday admitted to stealing the personal identification information of more than 150 patients at a Charlotte area medical practice. Keniona Thomas, 24, pleaded guilty in federal court in Charlotte to one count of identity theft for stealing the information from patient files, the U.S. Attorney’s Office said. Prosecutors…
W-2 Email Scam Finds More Victims in 2017
Caitlin E. Reilly reports: The number of organizations that fell prey to a recurring W-2 email scam that involved identity thieves posing as company executives rose subatantially in 2017, an Internal Revenue Service official said May 18. […] In the first four months of 2017, 870 organizations reported to the IRS that they received a…
PBSO deputy backs out of ID theft guilty plea; to take chance on trial
Jane Musgrave reports: A former Palm Beach County sheriff’s deputy on Friday was allowed to recant his guilty pleas and will get a chance to persuade a jury that he didn’t use his access to law enforcement databases to propel a $250,000 identity theft scam. U.S. District Judge Donald Middlebrooks agreed to let former deputy…