Archive for October 2012

Victims of identity theft get little help from IRS TAMPA — When Donna and James Miller tried to file their income tax return earlier this year, they learned they were part of a growing number of taxpayers whose identities were stolen for tax fraud. Someone had already used Donna Miller’s Social Security number to file…

Marine pleads guilty to federal identity theft fraud A 23-year-old U.S. Marine is looking at up to 22 years in prison after pleading guilty to federal fraud charges in an identity theft case that victimized fellow Marines stationed with him in Afghanistan, U.S. Attorney Wifredo A. Ferrer announced Wednesday in Miami. Jobson Cenor, of North…

Identity Thief Assumes Florida Man’s Life For 22 Years When Florida Highway Patrol Trooper Richard Blanco—a member of the FBI’s Joint Terrorism Task Force (JTTF) in Jacksonville—interviewed an individual suspected of driver’s license fraud in 2011, he wasn’t initially sure if the man was the victim or the perpetrator of identity theft. That’s because the…