Wednesday, May 9, 2012

FTC Identity Theft - Wed May 9, 2012


Identity Theft: A View From The Trenches
SunHerald.com
DES MOINES, Iowa -- For 12 years running, identity theft has been the leading consumer complaint filed with the Federal Trade Commission. And for those past 12 years, Jeff Wilcox, a Certified Identity Theft Specialist, has been working in the trenches ...
FTC Charges Myspace With Breaking US Law in Sharing Users' Personal Information
Pittsburgh Post Gazette
The charges were typically for so-called enhanced services, like voice mail, streaming video and identity theft protection, that consumers had not authorized, the FTC said. According to the FTC'scomplaint, Billing Services placed more than $70 million ...
FTC Seeks to Recover $52.6 Million in Alleged Phone Cramming Charges
PCWorld
From 2006 through 2010, BSG billed consumers for nine crammed "enhanced services," including three voicemail services, one streaming video service, two identity theft protection services, two directory assistance services, and one job skills training ...
Identity theft scheme lands two in jail for 25 years
CBS42
The IRS says the defendants were part of a scheme that involved fraudulently obtaining tax refunds by filing false tax returns using stolen identities. Dale admitted that she filed over 500 fraudulent returns that sought at least $3741908 in tax ...

BSG fires back at FTC action
San Antonio Express
The services included voicemail, directory assistance, streaming movies, identity theft protection and jobs skills training, the FTC's action states. “BSG billed for these services on behalf of a serial phone crammer amid a flood of complaints, ...
Ex-sailor sentenced for ID theft
Atlanta Journal Constitution
A search of Turner's house turned up the stolen Navy identities and other stolen identities that were used to file hundreds of fraudulent tax returns, Yates said. Kerr, Boyd, Mitchell and Turner were indicted in June 2010 on 42 counts of identity theft ...


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