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['http://www.itpro.co.uk/624886/it-pro-admits-to-1-1-million-charity-theft','_blank','A 27-year-old has admitted to stealing over $1.1 million from charities and nonprofits through an identity theft scam. (ITPro.com) 07/06/2010','A contractor who worked in the IT department of the Bank of New York has admitted to stealing more than $1.1 million from charities and nonprofits, among other organisations.
Adeniyi Adeyemi stole personal information from 2,000 bank employees and then used the information to carry out the thefts over eight years.'],
['http://www.kansascity.com/2010/07/05/2064601/how-to-protect-your-company-and.html','_blank','How to protect your company and customers from identity theft Read more (KansasCity.com) 07/06/2010','It is almost impossible to be in business today and not collect personally identifying information about customers, employees, business partners, patients and students. This information often is necessary to fill orders, meet payroll or perform other business functions.
Gathering and maintaining that information, however, makes the business a target for identity thieves.'],
['http://www.consumeraffairs.com/news04/2010/04/debt_collector_scam.html','_blank','Scammers Posing As Debt Collectors Rattle Consumers (ConsumerAffairs.com) 06/29/2010','Consumers have recently reported a rash of phone calls from a man claiming to be collecting on a debt to a payday lender and threatening criminal charges if they don`t pay up.
Since most of the consumers say they have never had a payday loan, they would normally brush it off as an obvious scam attempt, except for one thing. This man, consistently described as rude and having a foreign accent, has their Social Security number, email address and the name of their employer. '],
['http://www.foxbusiness.com/story/markets/industries/finance/strategic-defaults-remain-high-relief-sight/','_blank','Strategic Defaults Remain High, but Relief May Be in Sight (Comtex) 06/22/2010','COSTA MESA, Calif. and NEW YORK, June 28, 2010 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ ----According to updated findings from Experian and Oliver Wyman, strategic defaulters, who are defined as remaining delinquent for six months after the initial date of delinquency, continued as a high percentage of all mortgage delinquencies at 19 percent in the second quarter of 2009. While, overall, the broad trends observed in the first Experian-Oliver Wyman Market Intelligence Report on Strategic Defaults have continued into 2009, there is reason to believe the phenomenon may have peaked, or be close to peaking.'],
['http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9178537/White_House_seeks_comment_on_trusted_ID_plan?taxonomyId=17','_blank','White House seeks comment on trusted ID plan (ComputerWorld) 06/24/2010','IDG News Service - The White House is seeking comment on a draft plan for establishing a trusted identity system online, with the goal of making Internet transactions more secure and convenient.
Howard Schmidt, the White House cybersecurity coordinator and special assistant to President Barack Obama, released a draft version of the National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace on Friday.'],
['http://news.cnet.com/2010-1071-958328.html','_blank','Identity theft: Fact and fiction (CNET) 06/15/2010','In Shakespeare`s Othello, Iago laments that "he that filches from me my good name/Robs me of that which not enriches him/And makes me poor indeed." In the modern world, by contrast, filching someone else`s good name through identity theft can significantly enrich the criminal and impoverish the victim.
Some federal cases within the last year suggest why identity theft has become one of the fastest-growing forms of white-collar crime:'],
['http://www.fstribune.com/story/1640946.html','_blank','Identity theft is escalating threat ( The Fort Scott Tribune) 06/09/2010','More Americans are becoming victims of identity theft and a new federal initiative is designed to help to combat the crime.
The United States Senate recently passed a resolution declaring June as National Internet Safety Month in order to increase awareness of the need for online safety, especially among children and teens. LifeLock, an American identity theft protection company, is educating consumers about potential online identity theft threats.
Throughout the month, Internet safety organizations, law enforcement officials, educators, community leaders, parents and volunteers are encouraged to increase their efforts to raise the level of awareness in the U.S. regarding the dangers of the Internet, including the potential threats of identity theft.'],
['http://www.darkreading.com/security/vulnerabilities/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=225400005','_blank','FTC Reaches Settlement With Keylogger Maker (DarkReading) 06/04/2010','The Federal Trade Commission said today it has put the brakes on an operation that was selling spyware and showing customers how to remotely install it on other people`s computers without their knowledge or consent.
The FTC settlement bars CyberSpy, seller of the RemoteSpy keylogger, from advertising that the spyware can be disguised and installed on someone else`s computer without the owner`s knowledge. It requires that the software notify the user that the program has been downloaded and obtain consent from computer owners before the software can be installed.'],
['http://community.advanceweb.com/blogs/nurses_17/archive/2010/06/01/reducing-health-care-fraud-through-analytic-insight.aspx','_blank','Reducing Health Care Fraud through Analytic Insight (advanceweb) 06/01/2010','Personnel at a hospital in Miami called an Illinois woman repeatedly, demanding she pay a $2,000 bill for giving birth. She told the callers she`d never been to that hospital - and was 72 years old.
A fraud ring used 29 fake storefronts spanning Florida, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia and Louisiana to provide bogus cancer and AIDS drugs in an attempt to defraud taxpayers of $100 million.
And problems such as these are not confined to the U.S.: About $260 billion is lost every year to fraud and error in health care around the world, or enough to quadruple the budgets of the World Health Organization and UNICEF and control malaria in Africa, combined.'],
['http://www.inc.com/news/articles/2010/05/complying-with-the-ftc-red-flag-rule.html','_blank','Do You Comply With the FTC`s Red Flag Rule? (INC.) 05/25/2010','You may not even have heard of the federal government`s Red Flag Rule, but there`s a good chance by June 1 you`ll need to comply with it.
The rule requires businesses that are potential targets for identity thieves to develop plans to spot fraud "red flags" and prevent them.
Think the rule only applies to financial institutions? Think again. It requires all "creditors" to comply with the rules, but the definition of creditor is very broad, and includes "businesses or organizations that regularly provide goods and services first and allow customers to pay later," according to a Frequently Asked Questions guide prepared by the Federal Trade Commission, which will enforce the rule. Translation: If you invoice for goods or services, you`re a creditor.'],
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