5.4m of us apply for a passport every year and we relay on the Passport Office Service, a part of the Home Office to issue them. They say their mission is safeguarding your identity but Watchdog has received complaints from viewers who say that the Passport Office Service have made basic errors meaning that their…
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CT man pleads guilty to using stolen “convenience checks” to defraud banks
Justin Edwards, 27, of Coventry, Connecticut pleaded guilty today before United States District Judge Stefan R. Underhill in Bridgeport to four counts of bank fraud and one count of conspiracy to commit bank fraud. According to court documents and statements made in court, between July 2007 and March 2008, Edwards and a co-defendant stole balance…
KS: Pharmacy records recovered from downtown trash bin
Mark Fagan reports: The owner of the former Round Corner Pharmacy was scrambling Thursday night to recover hundreds of detailed customer records that had been thrown away during the building’s renovations. Tom Wilcox was notified Thursday evening that a desk drawer filled with prescription records from 2007 had been overturned in a roll-off trash container…
Your Personal Information Found In The Trash
Marshall Zelinger reports: COLORADO SPRINGS – Your personal information is available for anyone to get their hands on. Customers at a now-closed Hollywood Video near South Academy and Chelton Road may have their personal information just sitting in the trash outside the building. NEWSCHANNEL 13 found piles of trash with names, phone numbers, addresses, birth…
CA: Auburn I.D. theft ring is crushed
Four suspects are under arrest and more arrests are expected after Placer County Sheriff’s detectives broke up a large-scale identity theft ring Tuesday. The suspects allegedly stole at least $100,000 from victims across the county, according to sheriff’s department officials. Jayson P. Krack, 29, of Citrus Heights, and James M. Marich, 45, Shelly McCrory, 40,…
OR: Hundreds of personal files dumped at Redmond site
Amy Easley reports: Dozens of boxes containing personal information, from bills to bank statements, were discovered at the Negus Transfer Station in Redmond Saturday morning. Joe, a Crooked River Ranch resident, said Monday he came across the files while he was unloading his recyclables. “I started looking at the files, and there was probably a…