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Authorities in the investigation of organized crime in Rumania have arrested Liviu Mihail Concioiu on suspicion of a major phishing attack on eBay and other entities. The investigation, which has been going on since May 2009, was conducted in collaboration with U.S. Embassy agents in Bucharest, as well as internal eBay security staffers. According to the [...]  Global information services Experian announced the launch of Identity yesterday, a tool that businesses can use to verify identities that want to produce higher authentication rates to reduce the risk of account and identity fraud. Last year over 5,000 victims of identity fraud sought out aid from Experian in an attempt to get their identities back, [...] There was a large increase in the incidents of identity fraud that were reported during 2010 according to the UK Fraud Prevention Service CIFAS. The results found a growth of 14% as compared to 2009. In particular, the number of people who reported they were victims of impersonation in which a criminal takes on someone else’s [...] A new court ruling just made it a bit harder to fight against scams related to identity theft because the process of identity theft protection is now a bit more difficult than it already was with dozens of businesses making claims that they can protect you against fraud without the proper credentials. Identity fraud expert, Joe [...] Ashes to Ashes and Spooks star, Keeley Hawes, watched life imitate her role in the new ITV drama Identity as she became a victim of identity theft. The plot line of Identity involves an elite police unit that is in charge of crimes related to identity fraud, and the actor himself now is in the [...] New figures show that the number of people who are victims of identity fraud has increased by about 20% during the first part of 2010, when compared to the first three months of 2009. In fact, during the first three months of 2010 almost 27,000 people fell victim to a fraudulent activity. Out of these people, [...] |
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