What’s the Difference Between Identity Fraud and Identity Theft?
With upwards of 30% of consumers having their data hacked, stolen, or left unsecured by companies every year, it’s important to learn about how it happens. Fraud and identity theft allow hackers to get ahold of privileged information and create accounts in the names of their victims. It can take years to recover from identity […]
Understanding the Crime of Identity Theft: What does it Include?
Chances are if you’re reading this article you or someone you know has been a victim of identity theft. Even more surprising, someone you know may have been the culprit. When we think of identity theft thoughts of some techy person hacking into a corporate computer comes to mind. This accounts for a large amount of theft […]
Protecting Yourself from Identity Theft: What to do if an Identifying Document Gets Lost or Stolen
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]The most valuable things in your life are those that money cannot buy, like your health and your family. Material possessions are just things, but some are more painful to lose than others. Most of the time, it is more upsetting to lose something expensive, like a computer, than something cheap, like an umbrella, except […]
Dallas Court Finds Father and Son Guilty of Health Insurance Fraud Scheme
Some cases of fraud would make great movies. For example, everyone who enjoyed watching Frank Abagnale, as portrayed by Leonardo DiCaprio, repeatedly faking it until he made it in Catch Me If You Can would happily watch a cinematic adaptation of the fraud perpetuated by Tobechi Onwuhara, who painstakingly searched for people’s personal details online […]
Derek Alldred: A Cautionary Tale
A saying almost as old as the World Wide Web goes that you can pretend to be anyone online. An even older saying goes that, if something seems too good to be true, it probably is. One would think that in this era, in which no sooner is anything posted online than someone calls B.S. […]
What is a Texas Identity Theft Victims’ Kit?
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]It is no secret that having your identity stolen really messes up your life. In the movies, identity theft is sometimes played for laughs, such as in Identity Thief, starring Melissa McCarthy, and sometimes for pathos, such as in Changing Lanes, starring Samuel L. Jackson. In real life, there is no entertainment value in being […]