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Tag Archives: identity theft
Elderly fall victim to Medicare scam, identity theft
By Amanda Wood on April 18th, 2013 | Last updated: April 18, 2013 at 4:37 pm
Senior citizens are falling victim to a new Medicare scam that leads to identity theft.
UF notifies more than 14,000 patients of possible identity theft
By Jewel Midelis and Rachel Crosby on April 3rd, 2013 | Last updated: April 10, 2013 at 12:49 pm
The Office of the State Attorney has released the names of the Shands employees arrested in connection to compromising more than 14,o00 confidential UF&Shands patient profiles.
In the News: Mindy McCready’s death, tax identity fraud, Everglades water project, Gainesville biomass
By Dana Edwards on February 18th, 2013 | Last updated: February 18, 2013 at 1:38 pm
Embattled country star Mindy McCready dead at 37 of apparent suicide – On Sunday afternoon, the country singer Mindy McCready, 37, was found dead on her Arkansas home front porch. The authorities said she died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound. [...]
Study finds 2.5 million deceased people have identities stolen every year
By Front Page Edition on April 24th, 2012 | Last updated: October 3, 2012 at 10:52 am
By Katiana Krawchenko – WUFT-FM If identity fraud wasn’t bad enough, try having to deal with it when it happens to a dead relative. As Florida’s 89.1, WUFT-FM’s Katiana Krawchenko reports, a new study by a California-based fraud prevention company, ID [...]
