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...dining hall. Students on a mixed meal plan will have to think twice about tapping their weekly allotment for any given meal. And failing to swipe in or leaving the dining hall with food in hand, rather than constituting minor misdemeanors, could quite literally come to be viewed as theft...
Written like a classic crime story, this true-life tale kicks off with a botched robbery and police chase. Authorities raid the villa of a Munich-based antiquarian to discover a collection of 4th century B.C. vases soaking off encrustations - and traces of theft - in a 1.5-m-deep swimming pool full of water and caustic chemicals. As the plot thickens, a cast of crooked art dealers, shady collectors and formidable art institutions are implicated in an investigation that steers Italy's Art Squad to a Geneva warehouse filled with looted national treasures. The warehouse's owner? Giacomo Medici, Italy...
...Identity theft hits all age groups, but adults over 50 are especially vulnerable because they have established credit and larger limits. Beyond that, says Rod Griffin, manager of public education for Experian, one of the big three credit-reporting agencies, "they are more trusting and less familiar with electronic transactions...
...Identity theft is a growth industry, and thieves get more inventive every year. The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) counted 255,000 identity-theft complaints last year, up 3% from 2004, although most occurrences never get reported. The FTC estimates 9 million Americans got hit last year, with losses totaling $56.6 billion. Only 1 in 700 cases ever gets prosecuted, a risk-reward equation that suggests that these kinds of criminals will keep multiplying...
...your arrest for failure to report for jury duty. You must confirm your identity and book a date to serve as a juror soon or be dragged in. "Just like that, folks get talked out of their Social Security number," says Jay Foley, executive director of the Identity Theft Resource Center, which counsels victims...