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ID Theft: Who's Got Your Number
The reporter discovers an unexpected and enormous surge in the latest ID theft schemes -- stealing tax refunds and scamming free medical care.
Tags: ID theft; identity; identity theft
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To Catch an ID Thief
NBC worked with specialized investigators to penetrate an Internet underground "where criminals brazenly buy and sell credit cards, bank accounts, passwords, PIN codes and social security numbers." Their investigation tracked packages bought with stolen identities to a theft ring in Europe.
Tags: identity theft; Hansen Electronics; illegal charges; theft ring; Dateline
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Real Time ID Theft / Tracking the Thieves
The investigation revealed "floating" chat rooms in which identity thieves buy and sell stolen credit card and bank account numbers. It also followed investigators who lured thieves into ordering merchandise with stolen credit cards and then tracked them down using GPS-enabled cell phones.
Tags: computers; identity theft; chat rooms; stolen information; Internet Relay Chat; credit cards
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Evans sought for ID fraud, police say; Incident handled improperly, players say
The TCU Daily Skiff reports on a Texas Christian University "women's basketball scandal" in which one player allegedly stole the identity of one of her teammates, stealing more than $1,500 through the use of credit cards and a personal check.
Tags: TCU; women's basketball; ID fraud; identity theft Texas
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Stolen ID
KETV-TV "addresses the problem of stolen identity and how it can ruin a person's reputation and credit. It also describes how we and authorities tracked down the woman who stole our victim's identity and reveals the extent of damage done to many other victims across the country..."
Tags: TAPE TRANSCRIPT forgery bad checks credit card theft crime credit reporting errors
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Who's checking?
NBC News Dateline follows up a 1995 banking fraud story, and despite promises of banking reforms, "We returned to the same banks we had visited five years earlier. At five out of six banks we had no trouble opening fake accounts using fake ID. We also signed checks with names like Bugs Bunny and Porky Pig... They all went through." Dateline added "a comprehensive look at the safety of on-line banking... banks told us no major theft had occurred... Dateline found hundreds of cases where it's believed Trojan horse programs have pilfered records, stolen data and erased hard drives - we showed how easy it is to steal person accounts from someone's bank...."
Tags: TAPE TRANSCRIPT CAR counterfeit checks Secret Service hackers Internet World Wide Web online banking