Tag: CREDITCARDFRAUD

A 28-year-old Riker's Island inmate, who directed a credit card counterfeiting operation from behind bars, now faces grand larceny and conspiracy charges after his gang used the cards to purchase Apple products totaling more than $1 million. According to the New York Daily News, Shaheed "Sha" Bilal communicated with his gang via cell phone, and through messages given to his girlfriend/deputy, ...

While few businesses have made it through the current financial crisis unscathed, certain "entrepreneurs" continue to be successful: scam artists and con men. It can be difficult to stay abreast of such crooks' rapidly changing ploys, such as the recent phishing scam that promised expedited government stimulus checks, so we all need to exercise extreme caution whenever we are asked for personal ...

Senate candidate Norm Coleman has a massive, self-inflicted headache to deal with after the personal information for thousands of his donors' was leaked in January. Supporters were notified, not by the Coleman campaign (which had known about the security breach since January), but via an e-mail from the nonprofit Wikileaks site on Tuesday. Cullen Sheehan, Coleman's campaign manager, sent out ...

Florida is turning into a hotbed of identity theft and credit card fraud. According to CNET, this week brought news of three major security breaches in Florida that have put the personal information of tens of thousands of regular citizens in danger. First, Best Buy discovered that an employee at a West Palm Beach location may have been using a device to skim data off of credit cards as they were ...

A recent study indicates that women are more likely to be victims of identity theft than men, Forbes reports. Published this week, the study, which was conducted by Javelin Research, claims that women are 26-percent more likely to fall victim to identity theft. Last year saw 4.8-percent of women having their identity stolen, while only 3.8-percent of men were victims. In keeping with those ...