Dumped Mortgage Files Invite Identity Theft Last month, Waldell Thomas, a maintenance worker at Montego Apartments in Atlanta, made a discovery inside the complex’s Dumpster: a cache of 40 boxes of loan files containing Social Security numbers, credit reports and other data on customers of Ameriquest Mortgage Co. “I said: ‘God, this is people’s personal information,’…

Arizona Leads Nation In Identity Theft KOLD.Com 10/17/2007 – Arizona continues to lead the nation in the number of identity theft complaints, according to the latest figures from the Federal Trade Commission reported in the October issue of the AARP Bulletin, AARP’s national monthly newspaper publication. The AARP Bulletin today released a state-by-state look at…

Mortgage Office Manager Charged With Identity Theft and Grand Larceny THOMAS J. LUECK 10/16/2007 – The first report of a stolen identity and of the opening of a bogus charge account at Home Depot in the victim’s name came from a Queens resident, according to the police. Within a week, five more people complained that…

More Identity Theft In Mobile Phones, Computers Than On Internet Utica, NY (AHN) – The Internet is not the exclusive tool of identification thieves, and accounts for only about 10 percent of the crime. Instead, technology like printers, mobile phones and computers were used in about half of the cases. These are the findings of…

Former domestic sentenced to 2 years in identity theft Andrew Clevenger 10/12/2007 – A Kanawha County woman was sentenced to two years in prison in federal court on Thursday for stealing more than $77,000 from the elderly woman who employed her as a housekeeper. Kimberly S. Mullins of Elkview pleaded guilty to aggravated identity theft…

Identity theft taken to a whole new level Kate Eckman 10/10/2007 – LEE COUNTY: Law enforcement officials in Southwest Florida say identity theft has been taken to a new level. They say thieves can steal your identity using your financial information to set up their own corporation and leave you to foot the bill. It…

Schools must join war on identity theft Pupils personal information should be treated thetimesherald.com 10/10/2007 – Identity theft quickly is becoming one of the 21st century’s most alarming crimes. Terrorists used it to slip through security safeguards in their Sept. 11, 2001, attack against America. An ever-increasing litany of credit card fraud and related crimes…

Youngsters warned of identity theft dangers QAS 10/10/2007 – Young people are more likely to be the victims as well as the perpetrators of identity fraud, a new report has revealed. According to the latest figures from YouGov, cases of identity theft have risen by 70 per cent since 2006 and, according to the website…

Watching your steps: Identity theft grows as major national problem LEE MORRISON 10/7/2007 – It was an identity thief’s dream – someone agrees to hand over his wallet to you after just meeting five minutes earlier. That’s just what happened when presenter Kraig Rahe of Westfield Insurance asked an audience member for his wallet during…

Identity Theft: Don’t be duped Elsie Hodnett 10/7/2007 – Identity theft is an ongoing issue as criminals invent new schemes or refine older schemes in order to steal personal information from people. And local residents are no exception when it comes to falling prey to this type of crime. One Cropwell woman, who asked that…