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 [Inbox Robot: Bank of America News] Gangs get into identity theft: documents and then withdraw cash. A similar plot took in more than $150000 from Bank of America branches in Northridge, Granada Hills and elsewhere, court filings show.

[lifelock] Four of your majors risks for identity theft: From Joe Morales, director of the Denver district attorney’s economic crime unit: 60 percent to 70 percent of his office’s identity theft cases involved methamphetamine users or dealers, often in rings of 10 or more.

 [Garmin GPS] Consumer Beware Identity Theft Tools Techniques: The spy software will then relay this information over the Internet directly into the identity theft criminals email account. The nice thing for the crooks who operate this way is, they just let the victims emails pile up in an free untraceable email account, and then maybe once a month use an email parser to scan these emails for the information they need to get your money.This can be a totally automated process.The spy software is easy to buy off the Internet.

[JustGetThere] 'Ringleader' of ID-Theft Ring Was Fed Informant: Other suspects in the TJX retail hacking ring indictments include Hung-Ming Chiu and Zhi Zhi Wang, both of China, someone going by the online moniker "Delpiero", Sergey Pavolvich, of Belarus, and Dzmitry Burak and Sergey Storchak, both of Ukraine. Each of the six are charged with various identity theft and trafficking in access devices offences.

 [Dandelion Salad] Targeting Immigrants - The Largest Ever US ICE Raid: The 2002 Homeland Security Act established its largest investigative and enforcement arm in 2003: the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency (ICE) created “as a law enforcement agency for the post-9/11 era, to integrate enforcement authorities against criminal and terrorist activities, including the fights against human trafficking and smuggling, violent transnational gangs and sexual predators on children” - “criminal”

[How To Combat Identity Theft] Aug 8, US Hacker Gang Charged - Retailers Hacked For Customer Card ...: 7th August 2008 - A sophisticated US hacker gang has been arrested and indicted in Boston. Eleven members have been charged, including three US citizens and others from China and Eastern Europe.

[Article Directory] Identity Theft Questions You Need To Know About: Fortunately, there are several different ways to find out about identity theft. If you are lucky when you find out, it will not be too late.

[Identity Theft Daily] International Identity Theft Ring Operating in the US and Romania ...: A federal grand jury in Los Angeles charged 33 individuals in a 65-count indictment unsealed today for their alleged participation in an international racketeering scheme that used the Internet to defraud thousands of individual victims and hundreds of financial institutions. Seven individuals were charged in a District of Connecticut indictment for their roles in an Internet phishing scheme, including two who were also charged in the Los Angeles case.

 [FP Passport - blogging on global news, politics, economics, and ideas] Morning Brief: Russia halts the war in Georgia: California gangs are getting into the identity-theft business. Asia. Two provincial legislatures have expressed no confidence in Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf. Meanwhile, the military is battling militants outside Peshawar. ...

[Privacy and Identity Theft] TJX Credit Card Hackers Indicted in Massive Identity Theft Ring: In one of the largest hacking and identity theft case ever prosecuted, the Department of Justice said Aug. 5 2008 that it has indicted 11 people for the theft and sale of more than 40 million credit and debit card numbers.

[Darleen's Place] Poor little gangbangers have it so hard ...: Los Angeles Times runs an article on gangs "getting into" identity theft. Well, doah. I've only known about this and warned friends and family for years. Nice to have LATimes catch up. But the end of this article has to...

[Mortgage Information] MIRLN ”” Misc. IT Related Legal News [15 April - 5 May 2007; v10.06]: E-gold payments have also been linked to the notorious ShadowCrew identity theft gang. http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9018291&source=rss_topic146J.P. MORGAN CHASE PROBING DATA BREACH ...

[.: GAFNO.com - Hot World News Blog :.] Alleged TJX hackers charged: Gonzalez, from Miami, was charged on Tuesday with computer fraud, wire fraud, access-device fraud, aggravated identity theft and conspiracy. Christopher Scott and Damon Patrick Toey, also from Miami, were indicted on related charges by a Boston court on Tuesday.

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