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...term identity theft may conjure up notions of cyberhacks and Internet scams, but most ID fraud, it turns out, starts off-line. Last year 9.3 million Americans were victims of identity fraud, a problem that cost consumers and businesses some $52 billion. But fewer than 12% of cases start online, according to a survey by Javelin Strategy & Research and the Better Business Bureau. Most ID theft has an old-fashioned beginning: a lost wallet, stolen mail or a friend or relative with easy access to financial information. Another finding: People who monitor accounts online catch fraud earlier and minimize...
...websites that have been making matches, more than 20,000 evacuees are staying in the homes of strangers. In some cases, the results have been predictably disastrous. A Minnesota woman unwittingly took in a woman who turned out to be wanted in Florida on suspicion of organized fraud, grand theft and probation violation, according to the St. Paul Pioneer Press...
...call for "zero tolerance"of looting. Was it wrong to take a bottle of milk from a store when your baby was sobbing and there was no way to pay for it if you tried? When cans of food are scattered in the debris, does taking them amount to theft, or salvage? At one point, police with guns drawn escorted Dr. Henderson through a Walgreens as he emptied the pharmacy of drugs to use in a French Quarter bar turned makeshift clinic. Dudley Fuqua, tall and lean in baggy blue shorts, broke into neighborhood shops and took canned goods, frozen...
...many Americans are filling up without paying up. Although some gas stations have installed such deterrents as extra surveillance cameras as well as systems that force customers to pay before they pump, many more have been nagging state legislators to help curb rampant gas theft. Here are some of the fruits of their lobbying...
With police records revealing that 42% of the nearly 34,000 larcenies committed last year in Oklahoma City involved gas theft, the Oklahoma Governor signed a bill this spring that raised the fine for stealing gas to $500, up from...