May 30th, 2012 By the AllClear ID Team George here from the AllClear Investigation Team. Online dating scams have existed almost as long as online dating itself began. Scammers prey upon people’s hopes of love and long term relationships, and those who are fleeced can be too ashamed and embarrassed to report it to law enforcement. How it [...]
May 16th, 2012 By the AllClear ID Team Vanessa here with AllClear ID. We report frequently on the issues surrounding child identity theft, and the latest scam we’re seeing involves Facebook. Julie Chambers from Hull, England recently discovered a fraudulent Facebook page with pictures of herself and her daughter, Zoe, who died in 2008 after undergoing heart surgery. [...]
May 9th, 2012 By the AllClear ID Team Vanessa here with AllClear ID. In Rhode Island, driver licenses aren’t just sitting in people’s pockets; they’re also stored in a computer system that’s used to combat identity theft. A news report by the NBC station Channel 10 in Providence reports that the Department of Motor Vehicles in Rhode Island [...]
May 2nd, 2012 By the AllClear ID Team Kelly here with AllClear ID. If you’re doing any shopping online one slip of the finger could lead to a mountain of identity theft problems. “Typosquatting”, a scam in which domains similar to popular retailers are bought, is on the rise. Websense reports that such domains now number in the [...]