Tarrish Tellis, 38, owned the Club Iconz Bar and Grill in Montgomery, Alabama. He was also the mastermind behind a stolen identity tax refund fraud scheme that stole over $700,000. Yesterday, Tellis was sentenced to 223 months in federal prison, three years of supervised release and ordered to pay $694,366 in restitution. On Jan. 14, a federal jury convicted Tellis of…
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HSBC Financial Corp. notifies mortgage customers of online breach
HSBC Finance Corporation has begun notifying an undisclosed number of consumers whose mortgage account information was inadvertently exposed on the Internet. The firm believes the exposure began sometime towards the end of 2014 and continued until March 27, 2015, when they learned of the breach. The breach affected customers of the firm’s subsidiaries, including Beneficial Financial I, Inc.,…
Nine Defendants Plead Guilty in $20 Million Stolen Identity Refund Fraud Ring
There’s a follow-up to a case previously reported on PHIprivacy.net and on this site. From the U.S. Department of Justice: Alabama and Georgia residents pleaded guilty for their roles in a $20 million stolen identity refund fraud (SIRF) conspiracy, Acting Assistant Attorney General Caroline D. Ciraolo of the Justice Department’s Tax Division and U.S. Attorney George…
Identity Theft, Tax Fraud Snares Prisoners
I’ve covered some of these cases previously on this site and phiprivacy.net, but it’s worth noting as a vulnerable population. Joe Palazzolo reports: A raft of federal prosecutions has uncovered tax-fraud schemes involving the theft of U.S. prisoners’ social-security numbers, many times stolen by corrections employees. Last year alone, federal courts meted out prison sentences…
IRS’s Top Ten Identity Theft Prosecutions
Continuing its enforcement push against refund fraud and identity theft, the Internal Revenue Service announced the Top Ten Identity Theft Prosecutions for Fiscal Year 2014 (FY14). The ongoing efforts to bring identity thieves to justice remains a significant priority as part of the IRS’s comprehensive identity theft strategy focusing on preventing, detecting and resolving identity…
At least four lawsuits filed against Anthem within days of breach disclosure
Yes, it was less than 24 hours before the first potential class action was filed. Here are four potential class action lawsuits we know about already: Indy law firm files lawsuit on behalf of Anthem customers (Plaintiff: Karen Meadows) Anthem Sued Over Large Data Breach by California Consumer (Plaintiff: Susan Morris) Anthem’s big data breach…