Identity Theft Knowledge

Washington, D.C./Utica, N.Y. (Oct. 16, 2007) - On Monday (Oct. 22), Utica College’s Center for Identify Management and Information Protection (CIMIP) will release the results of a landmark study of closed U.S. Secret Service cases involving identify theft.

The study, which will reveal new findings about identity theft perpetrators, victims, and methods, marks the first time the U.S. Secret Service has allowed review of its closed case files on identity theft and fraud. The research will be of particular value to government, law enforcement and corporate entities whose mission is to prevent, detect, investigate or prosecute identity theft crimes, said Gary R. Gordon, executive director of CIMIP and professor of economic crime at Utica College.  Information on insider threats, points of compromise, and vulnerabilities will be of specific interest to chief security and chief information officers across many industries, including financial services and retail corporations, Gordon said.

The results will be released at the 18th annual ECI Conference. This year’s event, “Identity Management and Information Protection: Research to Action” will be held October 21-23 at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel, Tysons Corner, McLean, Va. The Economic Crime Institute of Utica College and CIMIP will present the conference; for more information, visit the ECI Web site at http://www.utica.edu/academic/institutes/ecii/conferences/.

CIMIP, the first-of-its-kind partnership of leading corporate, government and academic institutions, drives an aggressive research agenda that focuses on critical issues in identity management, information sharing, and data protection. CIMIP partners include LexisNexis, IBM, and TransUnion from the corporate sector; as well as the U.S. Secret Service, Federal Bureau of Investigation, and the U.S. Marshals Service from the government. In addition to UC, academic partners are Carnegie Mellon University Software Engineering Institute, Indiana University’s Center for Applied Cybersecurity Research, and Syracuse University’s CASE Center.

For more information, contact:
Christine Leogrande, Coordinator of Media Relations, Utica College, (315) 223-2519
Eric Kim, Senior Account Executive, Ketchum, NY (646) 935-4179

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Tags: fraud, identity+theft+insurance, identity+theft+crime, theft

Blogger News Network » Identity theft, the crime that can follow a person for years!:

The honchos here at the paper say I should devote my first column to introducing myself. At the moment, there’s only one thing I want anyone to know about me: I’m not Derrick Davis. And I want this guy out of my life once and for all.

David understands the frustration a lot of people go through when someone takes over their financial life.

In David’s case, the person who stole his identity wasn’t even here legally. Apparently, he was also able to use a social security number that didn’t match his name to run up lines of credit and open checking accounts. It’s amazing that the credit was issued, when discrepancies like these existed.

Davis was eventually caught, but only because David worked the case himself and had a sympathetic soul (Postal Inspector), who took the information for action.

Even then since Davis was an illegal immigrant, the worst that happened to him was being deported to Jamaica.

Trust me, catching an identity thief is rare and hard to accomplish, unless you know the right people. The odds of not getting caught are 99 to 1, according to statistics.

All of this occurred in 2003 and David is still suffering from the episode.

I hate to read stories like this, but it is the reason I have and recommend Identity Theft Shield.

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Tags: identity, skimming, phishing, credit+theft

Identity theft hits S.F. without warning - Examiner.com:

About a year ago, Michael Harville, a clinical psychologist from Bakersfield, checked his bank account to find that its entire balance had been drained.

The 35-year-old father first thought the money had been stolen, but he quickly learned that his bank, Bank of America, had seized the funds to cover overdraft charges on another, fraudulent account that had been opened in his name.

Harville had just learned he was a victim of identity theft, specifically by identity thief Harley Logsdon, who pleaded guilty to fraud and identity theft charges in San Francisco on July 25 and was sentenced to four years in state prison Aug. 7.

“He deposited a whole bunch of fake checks in that account worth something like $8,000. Bank of America pulled all the money out of my account to cover the overdraft in the account that he had opened,” Harville said.

… and now he has to clean up his identity himself too.  If he had Identity Theft Shield he could just turn the problem over to Kroll and go about his life….

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The Face Of Identity Theft — Security — InformationWeek:

While the culprit (or culprits) who stole 45.7 million customer records from TJX remains at large and unknown, law enforcement officials have arrested at least 10 people since the beginning of the year for their roles in using that stolen information to commit fraud.

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Tags: fraud, identity, theft, credit+theft