Friday, May 11, 2012

Online Scams Identity Theft - Fri May 11, 2012


Online scams cost $485 mn in US in 2011: survey
Turkish Press
Online scams including identity theft schemes, "advance fee" and "romance fraud" cost Americans some $485 million in 2011, a report prepared for the FBI said Thursday. The InternetCrime Complaint Center annual report said the number of complaints ...
Includes everything from identity theft to phone scams
ABC2 News
7 when fighting the practice on the internet. This includes everything from identity theft to phone scams. California tops the list with 314000 complaints of cyber crime in 2011. The report was issued by the Internet Crime Complaint Center ...

W.Va., Va. Losing millions to Internet scams
Marietta Times
The center received complaints of Internet-based crime that ranged from identity theft to romance-based appeals that lead often lead to requests for money. Based on the number of complaints, Virginia ranked ninth while West Virginia came in at 37th ...
California led nation in cybercrimes in 2011
Sacramento Bee
Online crime occurs in varied forms, from identity theft that uses personal information to commitfraud, to phony job schemes involving bad check deposits, to "romance scams" that seduce the lovelorn to send money to a pseudo-suitor.
The Fru-Gal: Avoiding and coping with identity theft
Lexington Herald Leader
Close any accounts that have been tampered with or opened fraudulently. ■ Request an identity theft victim kit from the state attorney general by calling 1-800-804-7556 or download it online at Ag.ky.gov/idtheft. If you do have your identity stolen, ...

South Daytona adopts identity theft policy
Daytona Beach News-Journal
... Tuesday night developing an Identity Theft Prevention Program policy in accordance with the Federal Fair and Accurate Credit Transaction Act. "In an era of cyber security, we have to protect what goes online," Councilman Brandon Young said.


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