A New Tool for Child Identity Theft: Facebook
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. The site was taking donations [...]
NASS Releases State Solutions to Business Identity Theft
While most public focus remain on personal identity theft, Brian Kemp, the Secretary of State of Georgia, is putting his focus on another type: business identity theft. This type is as easy as it sounds: thieves pretend to represent a business either for personal financial gain or to garner the personal information of individuals. Kemp [...]
A Major Source of Identity Theft:Social Security’s “Death Database”
Vanessa here with AllClear ID. What started as a database to protect Americans from fraud has become a major source of identity theft and misery. Making it worse, this is a database run by the federal government – and it says it’s powerless to stop the database information from going public. The database in question [...]
FBI Seeks Violent Charlotte BB&T Bank Robber
The Charlotte Division of the FBI and the Apex Police Department are seeking assistance to identify the subject who robbed the BB&T Bank branch located at 1130 Beaver Creek Commons in Apex, North Carolina on March 29, 2012. The subject jumped the counter during the course of the robbery and ordered customers inside to get [...]
PODCAST: Brian Anderson, Author of “Preventing Good People from Doing Bad Things”
In today’s turbulent technological environment, many organizations often have the best security software money can buy, with equally developed policies with which to execute them, but they fail to take into account the weakest link in their implementation: human nature. Despite all other efforts, people can sway from what they should be doing. A Full [...]