#identity-theft

#identity-theft

Identity theft: Saratoga residents reported that someone used their personal information to access their investment account and made several fraudulent transactions for a loss of about $33,000. Theft by false pretenses: A Saratoga resident reported contacting someone after completing an internet search for garage door companies. The victim sent money but never received the door for a total loss of about $2,724.

From April 2023 to February 2024, the U.S. attorney's office said Nguyen sent emails threatening to kill a man identified in court documents as T.H. and his wife and included screenshots of texts discussing hiring a hit man for $15,000 to kill T.H.'s wife. Nguyen also stalked five employees at the U.S. Consulate in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, sometimes impersonating T.H.'s wife and threatening the consulate, federal prosecutors said.

The e-commerce giant's data breach exposed 33.7 million customers-nearly two-thirds of the entire country's population-after hackers operated undetected for five months through overseas servers. Police have identified a former Chinese employee as the primary suspect, who exploited stolen encryption keys and authentication vulnerabilities to access customer names, phone numbers, email addresses, and delivery information. The suspect fled the country before authorities could make an arrest.

Identity theft: Saratoga residents reported that someone used their personal information to access their financial investment account and made fraudulent transactions totaling approximately $12,600. The transactions were cancelled, and no financial loss was incurred. Jan. 10 Theft by false pretenses: A Saratoga resident reported that someone hacked a former coworker's social media account, posted a vehicle for sale and collected approximately $12,000 from them via wire transfer, but then never provided the vehicle.

A Brazilian former police chief, who fled the country after he was convicted as an accomplice in the attempted coup by Brazil's far-right ex-President Jair Bolsonaro, has been arrested in Paraguay, according to the country's immigration agency. Silvinei Vasques was arrested on Friday at the Silvio Pettirossi International Airport in Paraguay's capital Asuncion, the Paraguayan National Migration Directorate (DNM) said in a statement posted on its website.

The Online Tool Center explained, that little barcode on the bottom contains all of your personal information, which is used when you scan your passport, allowing "border control officers and other authorities to quickly retrieve and verify your details such as your name, nationality, and passport number." The website noted the barcode also contains a ton of useful information that agents can use to assist you if your passport is stolen.

Steve Schmidt, the chief security officer at Amazon, says his team has identified and blocked more than 1,800 attempts by North Korea to secure IT roles at the tech giant. He warns that this scheme is becoming more prevalent across the technology industry as the nation-state actor targets the lucrative salaries of generative artificial intelligence and machine learning jobs, and the troves of valuable data such workers have access to.

Criminal threats, dissuade victim, resisting/delaying arrest: At 9:37 a.m., deputies responded to a disturbance in front of the Bank Bar on Big Basin Way. An investigation revealed the suspect made criminal threats toward the victim and threatened to kill the victim if he called 911 to report the incident. The suspect resisted but was ultimately arrested and booked into main jail.

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Theft by access card: At 2:25 p.m. at the Wells Fargo bank on Big Basin Avenue, someone used a ruse to swap debit cards with another person. The suspect then used the other person's debit card to make an unauthorized withdrawal of approximately $8,433. Grand theft: At 7:15 p.m. in a parking lot in the 20000 block of Fourth Street, someone fled with a box of Pokemon cards valued at $1,600 without paying after meeting the seller to see the cards.

Using apartments in the San Fernando Valley and Glendale area, a shadowy group of identity thieves has been quietly exploiting a new kind of victim - foreign scholars who left the U.S. years ago but whose Social Security numbers still linger in American databases, according to a cybercrime expert. Criminals are resurrecting these dormant identities and submitting hundreds of applications for bank accounts and credit cards, says David Maimon, head of fraud insights at SentiLink and a criminology professor at Georgia State University.

Michael Prime sought to recover his belongings from police custody following his release from prison, including a bright orange external hard drive that he claimed held 3,443 Bitcoins. The Secret Service sent letters to Prime after his release, saying he could have some of his devices back, which would be wiped if he provided them with relevant passwords within 30 days. If not, they'd be wiped and destroyed in the stated timeframe.

A man charged with an elaborate real estate scheme in New York City is not who he claims to be. Initially, investigators at the Queens district attorney's office charged him as Carl Avinger. But in March, they got a call from a man who had seen the case in the news saying he was the real Carl Avinger, and that the man they arrested had stolen his identity.

Theft by false pretenses: A Saratoga resident reported that someone contacted them online and ultimately convinced them to invest money in a fraudulent cryptocurrency scheme for a total loss of about $58,000.

It said in a letter sent to those affected that their admission dates, financial account numbers and type, patient account numbers, medical record numbers, health insurance details, and medical treatment and claim information was stolen by cybercriminals. The usual personally identifiable information (PII), such as names, addresses, and dates of birth, was lifted too, as were Social Security numbers. The provider of

There are banking scams, Social Security scams, and scams aimed at retirees searching for a work-from-home job. The thieves behind these scams will do whatever they can to separate you from your personal identity and money. Scammers are particularly interested in contacting seniors because they assume retirees have the most money to steal. They want your money, whether it's your Social Security benefits, pension, or retirement plan.

Queens District Attorney Melinda Katz announced the indictments of Kareem Reeves, 36, and Michael Robertson, 35, following a multi-year investigation by the DA's Major Economic Crimes Bureau, the U.S. Department of Labor, the U.S. Postal Inspection Service, the New York State Department of Labor, and the NYPD Financial Crimes Task Force. Prosecutors allege that Reeves filed fraudulent unemployment insurance applications in the names of 42 victims across 11 states, netting approximately $655,706 and attempting to steal another $59,590.

"Criminals had taken out nine different accounts using my name and my Social Security number," Rosenberg said. "They had set up all sorts of drug cartels... throughout the country and perhaps abroad... 'Have you noticed anybody trying to follow you?' And so he's already really got me really scared," she said.