Topic: United States

Two charged in Rhode Island for identity fraud of ill, elderly

CONWAY, Mass (Reuters) - Two Rhode Island men were charged on Thursday with conspiring to steal the identities of elderly and terminally-ill people to set up investments that reaped more than $25 million in death benefits from insurance companies and bond issuers.A ...

Real-world web abuse: Identity theft

Strict financial and identity theft are only a portion of the attacks targeting websites today.For hackers, the holy grail of online abuse is money and credit card theft. However, strict financial and identity theft are only a portion of the attacks targeting ...
A Los Angeles man has earned considerable time behind bars after serving as the U.S. head of a phishing operation that stole more than $1 million from the customers of two banks.The U.S. point person for one of the largest phishing rings ...

Immigration crackdown raises identity-theft risk

HEMET, Calif (Reuters) - In 2008, California tax authorities sent Miguel Chavez a letter saying he failed to file a return on income earned at Ashley Furniture Industries. But Chavez never worked there.Chavez since discovered at least 12 occasions when people used ...

More than 70 reputed Armenian gangsters arrested

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - More than 70 reputed members and associates of the Armenian Power syndicate were arrested on Wednesday in a state and federal crackdown targeting organized crime, authorities said.The arrests stem from two federal indictments and state cases that charge ...

More than 70 reputed Armenian Power gangsters arrested

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - More than 70 reputed members and associates of the Armenian Power street gang were arrested on Wednesday in a state and federal crackdown targeting organized crime, authorities said.The arrests stem from a two federal indictments and state cases ...

ID theft down 28 percent in U.S. in 2010: Survey

NEW YORK (Reuters) - The number of victims of identity theft dropped by more than a quarter in the U.S. last year, the largest annual fall on record, but individual victims lost more money on average than ever before.The annual survey of ...

ID theft down 28 percent U.S. in 2010 - survey

NEW YORK (Reuters) - The number of victims of identity theft dropped by more than a quarter in the United States last year, the largest annual fall on record, but individual victims lost more money on average than ever before.The annual survey ...
Operation eMule is targeting a Vietnamese-based fraud operation believed to have duped U.S. retailers out of millions of dollars.The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has zeroed in on two Vietnamese foreign exchange students believed to be part of an international criminal ...
Judge orders evidence destroyed in Colo. DA's ID theft investigation that was ruled illegalA Weld County judge has ordered the destruction of tax documents in an investigation the state Supreme Court said illegally probed suspected identity theft by illegal immigrants.The high court ...
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