by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Mar 2, 2014 | Scam of the day, Site Related
Florida resident, Carlos Gomez is suing Wells Fargo Bank for malicious prosecution relating to an incident of criminal identity theft. Gomez was falsely arrested in a predawn raid at his home in Kendall, Florida on crimes never committed by him, but were actually...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Nov 29, 2013 | Scam of the day, Site Related
Recently Kimberly Fossen of Portland, Oregon was awarded $105,000 in her lawsuit against the county for her arrest and temporary jailing when the police were actually looking for Minh Thuy Nguyen who had stolen Kimberly Fossen’s identity a year earlier. At the...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Aug 29, 2012 | Scam of the day, Site Related
One of the little discussed, but very serious aspects of identity theft occurs when your identity is stolen by someone who then commits a crime using your name. A recent incident involving Vancouver Chess Master John Yoos illustrates this problem. Yoos was...