February 12, 2025
A Philadelphia County man has pleaded guilty to felony charges for stealing a deceased classmate’s identity and fraudulently using it to obtain a driver’s license, vehicle registration and insurance, and to apply for a concealed carry firearms permit, Attorney General …
February 12, 2025
A North Carolina insurance agent is awaiting a court appearance next week after he was charged with fraudulently taking out a life insurance policy with Southern Farm Bureau Life Insurance Co. The North Carolina Department of Insurance said that Matthew …
January 16, 2025
The forecast for identity theft scams and cybercrime in 2025 is bleak, according to the Identity Theft Resource Center (ITRC). It’s anticipated there will be reduced support for victims and less law enforcement focus, likely leading to a rise in …
October 18, 2024
Four men have been charged with defrauding New York auto insurers by allegedly submitting more than $10 million in fraudulent claims for psychological services —and then laundering the proceeds of that fraud through a network of illicit check cashers. Damian …
May 8, 2024
Robert Kirby Wells, 64, of Woodland, California, was sentenced this week to two years in prison for aggravated identity theft. Court documents show Wells was an insurance broker for a company in Denver, Colorado, that owned multifamily and commercial properties …
April 26, 2024
A Boston man has been charged with a fraud scheme in which prosecutors say he collected about $45,000 in unearned sales commissions on insurance policies he created using personally identifiable information stolen from individuals. The state attorney general’s office announced …
September 11, 2023
North Carolina authorities have charged a Charlotte-area insurance agent with identity theft after he reportedly took out a life insurance policy without the man’s knowledge. Derek Urban Ezzell, 56, a multi-lines producer in Concord, submitted an insurance application in the …
August 28, 2023
A theft ring stole nearly $2 million from bank customers in central Pennsylvania in an elaborate scheme in which the scammers, posing as bank employees, tricked people into giving up their account information, the attorney general`s office said Friday. The …
May 18, 2023
Fraudulent filings for state unemployment insurance aid in Massachusetts could be distorting U.S. weekly unemployment claims data, economists warned on Wednesday, making it harder to get a clear picture of the labor market in the short-term. A surge in applications …
August 19, 2022
Francis Okyere, 70, a previously licensed insurance agent in Westlake Village, California, was arrested in relation to a scheme that involved him allegedly stealing multiple victims’ identities and using them to open a fraudulent insurance agency. The victims’ identities were …