On its corporate website, JPMorgan Chase makes a noble pledge: "We are committed to doing the right thing." Public Justice is out to make them keep that commitment, having just filed an opening brief in the Fourth Circuit in Epps...
April 2011 Archives
Police around the country continue to warn the public to be on the lookout when they use their credit or debit cards to get cash or to pay for gas at the pump. In cities from here in S Florida...
According to the Sun Sentinel, more than 70 victims contacted the Florida newspaper just last week describing nightmare scenarios involving months or years spent trying to clear their names after learning their tax refunds were sent to fraudsters. Each victim...
A Georgian man, Rogelio Hackett, Jr., who was arrested in 2009 by the Secret Service after being busted for selling about 1,000 stolen credit card numbers to an undercover agent, recently plead guilty to "access device fraud and aggravated identity...
Identity theft is a major problem, and most people try to keep their personal information out of the hands of thieves who would use it for illegal purposes. Unfortunately, many people may be giving out more information on their Facebook...
When the bottom fell out of the mortgage/lending market, a lot of honest people ended up losing their homes. And what's worse, in a staggering number of cases, it wasn't the fault of the homeowners. Many borrowers were held hostage...
Face it, our information is out there. As information continues to dribble out about recently reported massive data breaches, news of a data leak from the Texas Comptroller's office, has many people noticing the truth: we really have very little...
First we heard about ID theft risks from smart phones, then stolen laptops and copy machines. Now we find out that fax machines can be gold mines of personal data. Thermal fax machines use a ribbon to print images onto...
Everywhere our info is stored, whether in a corporate database like the recent Epsilon email breach, on a PC or even in office machines - somebody can access it and hurt you. Just last week, 12 people were indicted in...
New York Post financial writer John Crudele spent some time in a Manhattan café and discovered how easy it is for crooks to get access to your computer data over free public WiFi networks. We set up camp in a popular...
The Epsilon data breach may turn out to be the biggest data breach of all time. Had you ever heard of Epsilon before this weekend? Me neither! But it's the largest permission-based email marketing company in the world, sending 40...
The American Dream has now become the American Nightmare courtesy of the banking industry thanks to their slicing and dicing of loans that has now made it impossible for any of us homeowners to be certain of who really owns...
Two of the biggest misconceptions today center around understanding the difference between credit card fraud and the many other types of identity theft-and how those differences affect making choices between simply obtaining credit monitoring services or opting for identity theft...
A memoir exposing the steep price consumers pay when facing mortgage servicing errors, inaccurate credit reporting, illegal debt collection practices, identity theft and weak consumer protection laws. THE BOOK » DENISE'S STORY »
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