Fraudsters are nothing if not resourceful. But gone are the days of dumpster diving for credit card carbon papers. As is the relative ease of…
As electronic payments become more secure, criminals must be just as innovative as they seek to steal identities and commit fraud. In the case of…
Minors are attractive targets for identity theft. Because they’re young, they have clean credit reports, and most don’t discover the theft until they reach adulthood……
On a warm day in May, agents from the FBI and the U.S. Postal Inspection Service descended on a leafy neighborhood in South Carolina and…
Hackers, being an ever-inventive group, have found a new target to go after. Public schools. According to the U.S. Department of Education, a new cyberthreat…
WASHINGTON – The Consumer First Coalition (CFC) today sent a letter to the House Ways and Means Committee ahead of its hearing on the State…
ynthetic identity theft is fraud that involves the use of a fictitious identity. Identity thieves create new identities using a combination of real and fabricated…