Cybercriminals Threaten To Post Millions Of PII Records For Express Scripts...
Just last month I blogged about the new Identity Theft Enforcement and Restitution Act of 2008. It covers extortion. I’m interested to see if it gets used for the latest extortion attempt… “Express...
View ArticleTxt Phishing (Vishing) In Iowa: MetaBank NOT Calling!
Boy, all throughout the day I heard on the radio, and it was all over the noon and evening news, that Iowa customers of MetaBank were receiving text messages on their phones to call MetaBank about...
View ArticleMedical Identity Theft: Medical Equipment Co. Owner Sentenced to Prison
I just ran across this U.S. Department of Justice (USDOJ) press release from January 20, 2009… “MEDICAL EQUIPMENT COMPANY OWNER SENTENCED TO EIGHT YEAR PRISON TERM R. Alexander Acosta, United States...
View ArticleComputer Fraud Criminal Sentenced To 4 1/2 Yrs Jailtime + US$1.6 Million
Would you notice a $20 – $30 fraudulent charge mixed in with a lot of other charges…most people have more than 10 according to a financial fraud expert friend…on your credit card statement? It looks...
View ArticleMany Motivators For Identity Theft
I’ve heard far too many business leaders in lesser-regulated industries, of organizations of all sizes, say something to the effect of, “Oh, we don’t have any information that hackers would find of any...
View Article“Secure Your ID Day” is April 18
I’m in Omaha to speak tomorrow at the Infotec09 conference and I heard on the local news that “Secure Your ID Day” is April 18… Really!? I hadn’t heard about this until now. No, wait…I blogged about...
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Memorial Day & ID Theft Using Info Of Deceased
Every year since probably my first year on this world I’ve visited cemetaries on the Sunday right before Memorial Day. My parents’ reasoning was that we could get the graves and headstones decorated...
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Dairy Queen Will Trade Your Privacy and Safety for Free Ice-cream Cake!
This morning I heard that in honor of Mother’s Day, Dairy Queen would give you a free cake if you would just send them an email with your baby’s birth certificate attached. What!? Did I hear...
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Businesses are Also Synthetic ID Theft Targets
Early this month I was happy to discuss synthetic identity theft on the Great Day show. I briefly talked about how synthetic identity theft was also committed in the U.S. using business employer...
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