Archive for the 'fraud' Category

 IRS Warns of Another New Tax Refund Scam

Vanessa here from AllClear ID.  The Internal Revenue Service is warning of a new tax refund scam by some organizations claiming to help people get a tax refund or stimulus payment based on the American Opportunity Tax Credit, even if the person wasn’t paying for or enrolled in college. Fake claims have come from several [...]



 Fraud is a Problem at For-Profit Colleges

By the AllClearID Team Juan here from the AllClear ID investigation team. We’ve talked about how college students are at a high risk for identity theft, but for-profit schools (think University of Phoenix and Kaplan University) seem to have an unusual amount of student loan fraud. People who have attended for-profit schools have noticed that they [...]