Job Fraud – rock zone management identity theft Yet another scam to get your information to sell to other companies or for themselves to spam you through email. You never know. Possible identity theft since they ask for a lot of your information. In there email they ask for you to fill out an application [...]
Identity Fraud – Alternate Billing Corp. fraudulent phone billing The FBI is seeking information from consumers who believe that they have been improperly charged on their telephone bill for services neither ordered nor authorized related to Alternate Billing Corp., 24078 Greenway Road, Forest Lake, Minnesota, or any of its affiliated companies or services listed below. [...]
Credit Fraud – Texas Credit Card Fraud Ring Busted – ACCESS DEVICE FRAUD The results of this investigation show that beginning on or about March 1, 2010 until August 18, 2010: Nathan Paul Michael – W/M, DOB 02-07-1980, Age 30, 13596 Melody Lane, Malakoff Tx. Christopher Scott Michael – W/M, DOB 05-26-1986 Age 24, Same [...]
Identity Theft – ATM crime : Skimming Fraud So what exactly is ATM skimming? At its most basic level, it’s when a thief affixes a phony card reading device over the face of an ATM, and uses either Bluetooth or cellular technology (text messages) to transmit the data received from the magnetic strip to his [...]
Fraud Report – Postal Service Warns Telemarketing Fraud Scam With scam calls bombarding the United States from abroad and identity theft on the rise, the United States Postal Service has taken the unusual step of mailing a warning brochure to every single home in the nation. Last week, ABC News reported on an unprecedented telemarketing [...]
Many of the most popular Facebook applications, or “apps,” on the social networking site have been transmitting identifying information—in effect, providing access to people’s names and, in some cases, their friends’ names—to dozens of advertising and Internet tracking companies. The issue affects tens of millions of Facebook app users, including people who set their profiles [...]
New data suggests that mortgage fraud – which got tougher to scam consumers after the collapse of the U.S. real estate market is returning in a big way. Data prepared for The Wall Street Journal by research firm CoreLogic, examining about seven million home loans made by hundreds of lenders, show that losses from mortgage [...]
A “Dislike” button is the latest in a string of fraud scams circulating on the social networking site. It purports to offer users a way to express their aversion to links, videos and other annoying content posted by friends on Facebook, as an alternative to giving a thumbs up with Facebook’s “Like” button. To get [...]
Hundreds of online businesses are finding inactive Social Security numbers online –most of which are assigned to children under 18 who have not started using them – and selling them under different names to help people establish fake credit. The scheme may lead to significant debts that might be almost impossible to pay off. Which [...]
Eventually, authorities found a wealth of information, and thousands of dollars in bad checks – that led to an 8-member identity theft ring. Police have charged six people. 2 of them had worked at Bank of America and Wachovia. The charges come after investigators with Gwinnett police’s electronic and financial crimes unit began looking into [...]