Sentences with phrase «stolen identities»

«The most common forms of title fraud involve fraudsters using stolen identities or forged documents to transfer a registered owner's title to himself or herself without the registered owner's knowledge.

There are many faces of fraud in the insurance market - using stolen identities to obtain a new policy - or just as troubling, an account takeover to make a false claim or change payee information to receive claim funds.

The organisation served as a central clearinghouse that allowed members to traffic in stolen identities, financial and banking information, malware, and other online contraband.

Schneiderman has headed efforts to investigate fake net neutrality comments for the past seven months, finding that 2 million comments were posted with stolen identities.

Fake comments using stolen identities have appeared in droves on the FCC's docket, and the New York attorney general says he's been blocked from investigating, appearing last week at a press conference alongside Rosenworcel.

In a 37 - page indictment, officials detailed how the Russians repeatedly turned to Facebook and Instagram, often using stolen identities to pose as Americans, to sow discord among the electorate by creating Facebook groups, distributing divisive ads and posting inflammatory images.

None of these steps would prevent foreign agents from using stolen identities and bank accounts to buy divisive ads and create misleading posts.

Leave us your thoughts in the comments, or talk about your experience in dealing with hackers or phishers, hijacked accounts, or stolen identities.

Every day, stolen identities are exploited through organised crime and on - line hacking activities.

The 2 million suspicious comments appeared to be associated with stolen identities, Schneiderman said.

His office suspects that as many as a million of those comments are linked to stolen identities, including a 13 - year - old who never submitted a comment, a recently deceased woman and the office of the Attorney General's own assistant press secretary.

«[It is] incumbent upon the FCC and all of my colleagues to stand back, figure out what's in this record before us and get to the bottom of these stolen identities,» said Rosenworcel.

It turned a blind eye to all kinds of corruption in our public record — from Russian intervention to fake comments to stolen identities in our files.

New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman has been very vocal in his criticism of the FCC, and is planning a lawsuit on the basis (I gather) that the public comment period — required for new rules although the content of the comments need not inform the result — was inadequately administered and as a result «corrupted» by stolen identities and potentially Russian agents.

WASHINGTON The Internal Revenue Service issued $ 4 billion in fraudulent tax refunds last year to people using stolen identities, with some of the money going to addresses in Bulgaria, Lithuania and Ireland, according to an inspector general's report released Thursday.

The 11th - hour letter, sent by the Oregon attorney general and signed by representatives of 17 states and DC, follows a high - profile press conference last week from the New York attorney general, who said the FCC had declined to investigate net neutrality comments posted under stolen identities.

But, neither one will stop a thief from trading your SPI for cash, or using it for tax fraud or in any of the countless other ways fraudsters exploit stolen identities.

Errors and stolen identities can lead to enormous black marks on your credit report through no fault of your own.

Some scammers also steal new cards from letterboxes, skim the details off cards to use later, or apply for cards using stolen identities.

Credit Force estimates that victims of identity theft spend up to 600 hours or more struggling to retain their stolen identities.

All too often we read of stolen identities or excessive debt brought upon by miscommunication or a misunderstanding.

Multiple fake applications from one location associated with many different stolen identities is another common fraud alert.

Earlier this week, a concerned blogger raised the alarm about a troubling statistic: It seems a surprising number of users on the popular dating ROMANCE SCAMS NIGERIAN SCAMS SOLDIERS STOLEN IDENTITIES.

Some estimates suggest that stolen identities cost consumers and businesses more than $ 50 billion last year.

Straw buyers were supplied with stolen identities, including drivers licenses, social security cards, and income tax returns.

However, one American, Richard Pinedo of California, pleaded guilty to an identity fraud charge, seemingly because he sold bank account numbers created with stolen identities to the Russians.

According to Mueller's indictment, the Russia - backed operators of social media groups and accounts posed as Americans, including by using «the stolen identities of real U.S. persons» and servers and computing infrastructure located in the United States.

In fact, its stolen identities number more than double those of the rest of the top nine combined.

Behind the stolen identities, the operatives posted on various social media accounts and used their PayPal accounts to pay for political advertisements.

CNBC's Julia Boorstin reports that according to Vice's Motherboard, Facebook has hosted ads for years that featured companies peddling stolen identities and social security numbers.

In the 2013 investigations, managers used more than 25 stolen identities to employ at least 115 people in the country illegally, knowing they could pay below minimum wage, according to court documents.

The hidden danger was that people could use the information to do long - term damage like stealing your identity.

The firm appears to be using a similar email scheme — an attempt to extract a small fee and possibly steal identity data from job - seekers, according to Fortune tipsters, and pairing it with a PR Newswire press release to make itself appear legitimate.

In Russia's case, most of these stole identities came from two large breaches targeting Mail.ru.

Some might be fly - by - night scams out to steal your identity.

IRS scammers are working overtime this season in an attempt to steal your identity and money.

Not only could the payday loan company end up stealing your identity, but other criminals could also end up accessing the information.

And, since this information simply doesn't change, they can access and basically steal your identity whenever they want — at any point in the future.

Don't make it easy for thieves to steal your identity or personal information.

The son of a Minnesota woman suspected of killing her husband and then killing a Florida woman and stealing her identity says she was a «good lady» but «had her own demons» including a gambling addiction.

Because of this market being so virgin, I was fearful that I would lose my $ 100 (about a month's worth of groceries), and possibly suffer from computer viruses at the best, or a stolen identity and empty bank account at the worst.

Pride, commercials, Hollywood, social media, parental pressure, success, disappointment, failure, the Devil, aging, bereavement, the church and so on have been far more successful at stealing our identities than any online thieves.

Can the Chinese buy a few tubs of organic honey from a US roadside stand and add in a microliter of it to each gallon of honey they process, thus essentially stealing the identity of a US, homegrown honey?

Honestly, I never really thought about needing a paper shredder until I realized how easy it is for someone to steal your identity with just a few documents getting into the wrong hands.

Thieves can steal your identity in many, many ways... online, with rigged ATM machines, or by physically stealing sensitive documents.

Shady characters as I like to call them can use your private information to steal your identity, stalk you and your family, hack your credit, and more.

Thieves are savvy enough to amass information online and possibly steal identities to make purchases or conduct other unlawful business.

The prime minister called for an investigation into the murdered a senior Hamas official in Dubai which used the stolen identity of six British citizens.

Service employees such as bank tellers and restaurant workers ripped information from residents and tourists, stealing the identity of thousands.

New York State Police have arrested a man they believe stole the identity of a cop killed in a car crash earlier this year.