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Identity Thieves Target The Dead
Posted on Mar 29, 2007 by Michelle Pastor
Identity thieves will swoop in on the dead because for them, the best identity theft victim is one that no longer needs his credit and won't ever realize it's been stolen! Here's how one thief in Louisiana managed to grab identities of the deceased.
Stockdale, an emergency room clerk, allegedly sent her son text messages with names, birth dates and Social Security numbers of patients who were near death or had recently died. Ezell then used that information to submit credit card applications in the dead patients' names, using addresses of hurricane-damaged, unoccupied homes near his house in Slidell, authorities said.
Read the article, Authorities: Dead targeted in identity theft case, for more information.
Filed under: Data Breach, Fraud, Identity Theft, Scams
Tags: dead, deceased, hurricane, identitytheft, idtheft
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