Identity Theft News

What you need to know about paper shredding Every two seconds another American becomes a victim of identity theft. While many thieves hit you online through data breaches or compromised accounts, some still rely on old-fashioned methods like mail theft or digging through your trash. This is why document shredding remains an important tool in…

Work Wanted: Unemployment claims fraud on the increase in Florida One of CareerSource’s directives is to help people who are unemployed get their job search on track. We regularly reach out to people receiving Re-employment Assistance (Florida’s term for unemployment compensation) to invite them in for a one-on-one meeting to develop strategy about their career…

Purging the paper from your office — and your life As we reach the end of the year, it’s a great time to take inventory of your records and more importantly, your records management plan. It’s easy to fall into a “save everything” philosophy when it comes to documents and other records, and accumulating paper…

Ormond police charge 4 men in statewide identity theft ring ORMOND BEACH — Four Miami men who police said are a traveling fraud ring who claimed to be in cahoots with the Russian mob in South Florida were arrested in the parking lot of a lawnmower business, investigators said. The suspects, natives of Cuba who…

Florida men plead guilty in federal court in St. Louis to identity theft charges ST. LOUIS — Two Florida men face sentencing in February after pleading guilty to federal identity theft charges. Montrail Austin and Terrell Langston, both 25 and from Miami, entered the guilty pleas Monday in U.S. District Court in St. Louis. Langston…

Woman tried to hide plethora of stolen IDs in leggings, Plantation police say Fort Lauderdale woman caught with 18 driver’s licenses, 14 credit cards, 10 debit cards, six Social Security cards, five checkbooks and one birth certificate that did not belong to her landed briefly behind bars.. Brittany Lashae Prince, 22, was arrested Tuesday on…

Florida stopped 55,000 unemployment claims for possible fraud in 2014; employees upset by fraud BOCA RATON, Fla. – Millions of your tax dollars are paid to thieves each year. They’re ripping off you and the government by filing fraudulent unemployment claims. It’s a growing problem in Florida, and companies are frustrated with the state’s steps…

Florida student aid accounts used in ID theft MIAMI – Accounts used by South Florida college students to receive financial aid were used in a scheme to file fraudulent income tax returns using stolen identities. Miami U.S. Attorney Wifredo Ferrer said Tuesday that 21 people have been charged, most of them current or former students…

Sensitive student information recovered in Oregon City dumpster OREGON CITY, OR (KPTV) – Hundreds of pages of private student and parent information is uncovered in an Oregon City dumpster. The district admitted to the FOX 12 investigators their records were thrown away improperly. FOX 12 has confirmed that many of those documents came from Oregon…

One Mattress Firm Store Dumps Sensitive Documents; Exposes Customers to Identity Fraud Risk Several Mattress Firm customers are furious after finding out documents with their sensitive personal and financial information was dumped in a strip mall dumpster without being destroyed. “I was pretty stunned,” said Frank LaRoe, one of the affected customers. A few weeks…