Topic: U.S. Secret Service
A man who pleaded guilty to wire fraud and identity theft charges received a 14-year prison sentence.A man who pleaded guilty on April 4 to one count of wire fraud and one count of aggravated identity theft was sentenced last week in ...
The U.S. Postal Office handles more than 207 billion pieces of mail each month. The study, an assessment of closed U.S. Secret Service casesbetween 2000 and 2006 which had components of identity theft and identity fraud,showed the top two methods of non-technological ...
A sizeable chunk of online population are either unaware or simply too careless about protecting their identities. Identity fraud laws have been around for quite some time now and are being strengthened over a period of time to keep up with more ...
International credit card fraud is a serious problem that is difficult to spot. Anything that has an international location on the charge is likely an international fraud. When international fraud is suspected, inform a local FBI office or U.S. Secret Service so ...
l information to carry out a crime under a false identity. In 2003, the Federal Trade Commission said that reports of identity theft were up 33% from the year before, that they were aware of over 200,000 cases of identity theft in ...
Bush approves six-month protection for former vice presidentsPresident Bush on Friday signed legislation giving Vice President Dick Cheney and future vice presidents six months of Secret Service protection after they leave office.The measure, which passed through Congress earlier this month, also extends ...
Congress approves six-month protection for former vice presidentsVice President Dick Cheney and future vice presidents will get six months of Secret Service protection after they leave office under legislation passed Monday by the House and sent to the president for his signature.The ...
Web Mobs They operate under names such as carderplanet, stealthdivision, darkprofits and the shadowcrew. More than $4 million in losses suffered by card issuers and banks, says the Secret Service, which is charged by the U.S. government to investigate counterfeiting, credit card ...
A study of identity thieves compiled from U.S. Secret Service cases dispels several commonly held beliefs, finding they generally are strangers -- not relatives or friends -- a surprising number are women, and the information is more likely to be purloined from ...
The study's authors based their findings on an analysis of 500 closed Secret Service cases.. The college has been working with a number of partners, including the Secret Service, IBM, and the Federal Bureau of Investigation, since the Center's creation in mid-2006 ...
