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There are no national figures on prosecution rates for identity theft, but everyone involved agrees they are low and that the only practical alternative is prevention. Victims are advised to place fraud alerts on their credit reports, which flag potential lenders to contact their home or office before approving an application. Two months after Johnson posted these preauthorization advisories, Gateway's lending arm called to say it had rejected a fraudulent application. The same day, American Express phoned to see whether Johnson had received an Optima card--one he hadn't applied...
...will begin to lay bare what they say are the roots of one of these terror cells when they open court proceedings against Ouassini Cherifi. A first-generation Frenchman who seemed a model of integration and upward mobility, Cherifi was arrested in August of 2000, and ultimately charged with theft and fraud to generate funds and distribute false identity documents to fellow extremists. Time had an exclusive look at the accusations, the evidence and the defense that will be presented in the case - one that French justice officals say shows how suspected operatives like Cherifi are crucial to the functioning...
Cherifi's lawyer, Fouad Deffous, says his client admits the possession of counterfeit passports and materials to produce fraudulent credit cards. Deffous argues, though, that any theft, fraud or procurement and distribution of forged passports were a means of generating personal income and not of assisting terrorists. Prosecutors contend they have convincing evidence to the contrary. First, they note, fake passports containing spelling and grammatical errors identical to those belonging to Cherifi were discovered in a December 2000 raid of an al-Qaeda cell in Frankfurt. And telephone numbers for members of that group, who were alleged to have been...
Details of the alleged theft from the Hasty Pudding Theatricals and the College’s response mirror a number of recent instances of theft from student groups...
After a rash of pilfering scandals, including the theft of $127,000 from Eliot House’s annual Evening with Champions (EWC) benefit in 1993, the College responded by requiring a two-hour long seminar on financial management for student group leaders—however, administrators resisted any drastic changes...