by Steven Weisman, Esq. | May 16, 2023 | Scam of the day
It was just less than a week ago that I told you about a data breach at NextGen healthcare, an electronic health record software company which recently notified a million patients that their personal data had been stolen in a major data breach that apparently occurred...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | May 13, 2021 | 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. Deceased identity theft or ghosting is a major problem. The number of deceased people whose identities were stolen last year reached 2.5 milIion people. ...
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...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Mar 26, 2019 | Scam of the day
Another scam, about which I have written numerous times before, was in the news recently when Linda Longacre of Oklahoma became a victim of identity theft weeks after her death when a check written by an identity thief was deducted from her account. Not even the...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Feb 11, 2014 | Scam of the day, Site Related
Although the Death Master File sounds like a list kept by Darth Vader, it actually is a federal database that contains the names and Social Security numbers of more than 83 million dead Americans. The list was initially established to help federal agencies, insurance...
