Bust-ed Identity Thief Going to Jail

Check out this news and video clip from a San Diego news channel.
It’s really an interesting story and goes to show how being a victim of identity theft isn’t just about your credit card being misused…one of the thieves used a fake identity to get a $9K breast implant procedure done.
Needless to say [...]

MySpace Sees the Identity and Age Verification Light…

Today’s press release out of North Carolina Attorney General’s Office Roy Cooper is a big deal. Here’s the first paragraph:

In a victory for social networking safety, Attorney General Roy Cooper and 49 other attorneys general today announced that MySpace has agreed to significant steps to better protect children on its web site, including creating [...]

Weekend At Bernie’s: Real Life Fraud Attempt

Did you see this story?  No, it’s not a joke or a scene from a bad 80’s movie.  Two men actually used an office chair to wheel their dead friend down to a check cashing store in NYC in an attempt to cash the man’s Social Security check.
I think one of the film’s tagline’s sums [...]

Annual Fraud Report Hot Off the Press

I got the early edition of Cybersource’s 9th annual fraud report today. I haven’t had time to fully absorb/read all of the information but there were some facts that jumped out at me:

82% of merchants are manually checking orders today with 1 out of 3 orders being manually reviewed. Merchants also indicated that over [...]