by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Feb 27, 2023 | Scam of the day
Not even the dead are immune from identity theft and this particular type of identity theft is now on the rise. Until new regulations were enacted in 2014 scammers merely checked out the latest obituaries and then went to a free totally available data bank called the...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Oct 4, 2020 | Scam of the day
James Jackson was sentenced to 17 years in prison for stealing the identities of recently dceased people and taking over their credit card accounts, savings accounts and brokerage accounts. Jackson gathered information from obituariesand used that information to take...
