Woman Gets 12 Years In ID Theft Case
kpho.com

A Phoenix woman was sentenced to 12 years in prison Wednesday after she pleaded guilty to aggravated identity theft. Shelly Draper, 44, was arrested on June 6, 2007, after Phoenix police found several items that they believe indicated she was involved in identity theft.

Police initially arrived at Draper's hotel to arrest her on an outstanding warrant for possession of dangerous drugs for sale. When officers entered Drapers' hotel room, they found several items linking her to identity theft, investigators said. The items found in Draper's room consisted of an active police scanner, several passports, three computers, two Arizona driver's licenses, multiple cell phones, stacks of check books, stacks of mail, a printer, and photo copies of other Arizona identification cards, according to a Phoenix police probable cause statement .

Someone Has A Copy Of My Card
tigerweekly.com

Consumers take risks daily that put their financial status in the hands of strangers – literally. Every time a diner grabs a bite to eat and then turns his or her MasterCard over to the wait staff, this individual is at risk of becoming a victim of the growing industry of identity theft – and this is just one scenario out of many in which one's financial identity can be so easily corrupted.

It is no secret that identity theft happens frequently, and everyone has heard stories of some unfortunate individual who has had his or her credit card information stolen by someone else. This happens simply by placing the card into the wrong person's hands. What that person does with this monetary information can be surprising.

Criminals now have the technology to make an actual physical copy of a consumer's card to be later used by the unlawful thief at his or her leisure. They no longer have to limit their purchasing power because now they too have a physical copy of the card of some unsuspecting cardholder. This reason alone is incentive enough to monitor one's financial transactions on a daily basis, which can save consumers from a big headache in the long run....more

State Busts Sex Offender in Carson City on Identity Theft Allegations
rgj.com

The latest person arrested using the Department of Motor Vehicle's digital face recognition technology is a convicted sex offender trying to register using his dead brother's identity, the DMV announced Wednesday. Timothy Dean Johnson, 41, of Dayton was arrested Tuesday at the DMV office in Carson City on a charge of identity theft, possession of a fraudulent document, possession of a birth certificate of another and false application for a driver's license or identification card, the DMV said. All are felonies and bail was set at $40,000. The DMV said it had an existing photograph of Johnson and its computers compared that to one Johnson submitted with an application under the name of his deceased brother, spokesman Tom Jacobs said.

Man Arrested for Identity Theft Purchasing Sex Subscriptions
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Police say they have arrested a 20-year-old man for using a stolen debit card to purchase poronographic website subscriptions on the internet. On Nov. 11, 2008, the Milton Police Department was contacted by a victim of an identity theft.  Police learned that the victim's debit card was used to purchase pornographic website subscriptions on the internet, without the victim's knowledge.

Authorities say they an investigation and arrested James M. Tilger , 20, of Millsboro, Del. on Thursday for identity theft, three counts of theft and three counts of unlawful use of a credit card. Tilger was arraigned by the Justice of the Peace Court 2, released on $6,000 unsecured bond and placed on pre-trial supervision. Case pending in court at a later date.

Protecting Yourself From Online Identity Theft
ny1.com

In the growing quest to gain free content, whether it be music or movies, people are downloading file sharing software that in turn can share their personal information without them even knowing.

"As they download these free, so called free clients, what ends up happening is that their entire hard drives are then indexed and that includes all the personal information thats on those hard drives. So just think what you have personally on your hard drive. Would you want that shared?" ...more