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Picante restaurant is victim of credit card scam

Posted on May 12, 2010 by Dissent

Frances Dinkelspiel reports: Picante, the popular Mexican restaurant on 6th Street [in Berkeley, California] , has been the target of an international credit card fraud operation, its owner says today. Thieves from as far away as Russia managed to penetrate the restaurant’s credit card encryption system and steal the numbers of dozens of customers, says…

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U.S. airport security officers targeted in ID theft

Posted on May 12, 2010 by Dissent

From Reuters, this follow-up on a breach reported previously: A Massachusetts couple has been charged with stealing the identities of dozens of Transportation Security Administration officers, who screen passengers and baggage at U.S. airports. A federal grand jury accused Michael Derring, 48, and Tina White, 47, on Wednesday of conspiracy and aggravated identity theft, alleging…

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Woman sentenced in UCM identity theft case

Posted on May 12, 2010 by Dissent

As a follow-up on a case previously covered on this blog,  there was a small story in the Kansas City Star that Amanda J. Drake  was sentenced to six months in prison for an identity theft scheme that targeted University of Central Missouri students.  Drake’s husband is a former university police officer who was previously…

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Judge won’t accept pleas in Jackson Memorial Hospital ID theft case

Posted on May 11, 2010 by Dissent

Jay Weaver reports: A husband-and-wife duo charged with running a racket to pilfer patient records from Jackson Memorial Hospital to sell to lawyers for injury claims tried to plead guilty Tuesday in Miami federal court. But U.S. District Judge Joan Lenard said she couldn’t accept their pleas because she didn’t think the prescribed punishment fit…

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IRS Divulges Personal Taxpayer Information

Posted on May 11, 2010 by Dissent

The Internal Revenue Service does not always properly authenticate the identity of taxpayers calling its toll-free assistance lines before providing them with confidential tax account information, according to a new government report. The report, by the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration, found that taxpayers who call the IRS-toll-free lines are at risk of having…

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Maryland Attorney General Settles with Mid Atlantic Processing

Posted on May 11, 2010 by Dissent

Attorney General Douglas F. Gansler announced that his Consumer Protection Division has entered into a settlement with MAP, LLC, a payment processing company formerly doing business as Mid Atlantic Processing, and Martin A. Taylor and Rony Natanzon, two officers of the company. The Division alleged that when Mid Atlantic Processing closed its Owings Mills office…

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