Archive for March 2015

Documents with Social Security numbers found in south St. Louis dumpster ST. LOUIS, Mo. (KMOV.com) – A south St. Louis resident was in alley picking up trash when he discovered a dumpster overflowing with documents containing personal information. The resident then called Dona Forbes, whose name and Social Security number was on some of the…

Florida Hospital: 2 employees copied records of 9,000 patients Two Florida Hospital employees printed portions of medical records of as many as 9,000 patients from January 2012 to May 2014, the hospital announced on Friday.. The hospital is notifying the affected patients on Friday. Hospital campuses in Orange, Osceola and Seminole Counties are affected. There…

Tax fraud peeks in South Florida, student victims speak out Paul Hunt, a professor at the University’s Robert Stempel College of Public Health and Social Work, didn’t receive his 2012 income tax refund until September 2014. After having sat down on May 2013 to file his 2012 income taxes, along with those of his wife,…

Florida: The #1 State for Identity Theft Consumers filed nearly 2.6 million complaints with the Federal Trade Commission and other consumer groups in 2014, and identity theft was the most common kind, making up 13% of complaints, according to the annual Consumer Sentinel Network report. Identity theft is a national issue — the 332,646 identity…

 Naples ranks fifth highest in U.S. for consumer complaints on ID theft, fraud WASHINGTON — Florida remained the hot spot for fraud and identity theft in 2014, burdened by the highest per-person rate of consumer complaints in the nation. Among metropolitan areas, South Florida topped the list for ID-theft complaints for the fifth year in…

Why do Florida metro areas dominate the nation for fraud complaints? The phrase rolls so easily off the tongue. Too easily, given new national statistics that show — right down to the metro area — that Florida remains by far the fraud capital of the United States. The state should be careful, lest it becomes…

Lee County nurse accused of ID theft, fraud LEE COUNTY, Fla.- A local nurse is accused of opening fraudulent credit accounts in the names of at least eight of her patients. The Lee County Sheriff’s Office says Lynn Schlosser was arrested after they received a complaint about identity theft and credit card fraud in January.…

Florida couple indicted in St. Louis in ID theft, tax fraud scheme ST. LOUIS • A Florida couple have been indicted on federal charges and accused of running a tax refund fraud scheme that preyed on employees of a St. Louis bank, among other victims, to reap more than $1 million in suspicious refunds, court…

Florida leads nation in fraud, ID theft WASHINGTON — Florida remained the hotspot for fraud and identity theft in 2014, burdened by the highest per-person rate of consumer complaints in the nation.. Among metro areas, South Florida topped the list for ID-theft complaints for the fifth year in a row, according to figures released by…