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Woods spent 428 days in county jail and 147 days in the mental hospital before he was released after agreeing to a no-contest plea. He was ordered to pay $400 in fines and to stop using the name ...
Ghosting (identity theft) Ghosting is a form of identity theft in which someone steals the identity, and sometimes even the role within society, of a specific dead person (the "ghost") whose death is not widely known. Usually, the person who steals this identity (the "ghoster") is roughly the same age that the ghost would have been if still ...
Albert Gonzalez. Albert Gonzalez (born 1981) is an American computer hacker, computer criminal and police informer, [ 1] who is accused of masterminding the combined credit card theft and subsequent reselling of more than 170 million card and ATM numbers from 2005 to 2007, the biggest such fraud in history. Gonzalez and his accomplices used SQL ...
Jonathan Lee Riches is a convicted fraudster known for the many lawsuits he has filed in various United States district courts. [ 1] Riches was incarcerated at Federal Medical Center, Lexington, Kentucky, for wire fraud under the terms of a plea bargain. His release date was April 30, 2012. [ 2] He was arrested for violating his federal ...
In New York, the total amount stolen — which ended up being $11,300 — made the crime a Class D felony, which includes thefts of more than $3,000 but less than $50,000. The bank also gave me ...
The term identity theft was coined in 1964. [1] Since that time, the definition of identity theft has been legally defined throughout both the U.K. and the U.S. as the theft of personally identifiable information. Identity theft deliberately uses someone else's identity as a method to gain financial advantages or obtain credit and other benefits.
A 2012 identity fraud report by Javelin Strategy & Research says that cases of identity theft increased by 13 percent in 2011, with more than 11.6 million U.S. adults becoming victims.
Identity theft involves obtaining somebody else's identifying information and using it for a criminal purpose. Most often that purpose is to commit financial fraud, such as by obtaining loans or credits in the name of the person whose identity has been stolen. [1] Stolen identifying information might also be used for other reasons, such as to ...