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Suit alleges Trademark Infringement, Deceptive Trade Practices, Consumer Protection Act Violation and others. NASHVILLE, Tenn., June 27 NASHVILLE, Tenn., June 27 /PRNewswire/ -- On Wednesday, attorneys for NAMESAFE filed a Federal Complaint in the Middle District of Tennessee against identity theft protection company LifeLock asserting that LifeLock and its CEO Todd Davis attempted to steal the trademark and deceptively divert traffic from search engine users intending to go to NAMESAFE.com. The suit alleges various violations of Trademark Laws and the Tennessee Consumer Protection Act, as well as other causes of action, asserting that LifeLock has attempted to lead unsuspecting consumers...

I'm really thinking about using some sort of identity theft service, especially since I got married and my credit card usage went up. Questions to anyone using these services: Can Lifelock be trusted and does it work? How does it work?

Researchers Say Notification Laws Not Lowering ID Theft Over the past five years, 43 U.S. states have adopted data breach notification laws, but has all of this legislation actually cut down on identity theft? Not according to researchers at Carnegie Mellon University who have published a state-by-state analysis of data supplied by the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC). "There doesn't seem to be any evidence that the laws actually reduce identity theft," said Sasha Romanosky, a Ph.D student at Carnegie Mellon who is one of the paper's authors. Romanosky's team took a state-by-state look at FTC identity theft complaints filed...

The importance of full disk encryption solutions for laptops and other digital media has been espoused a myriad of times by numerous security vendors like AlertBoot. WeÂ’ve all heard the stories regarding identity theft, and the importance of keeping Social Security Numbers safe. Then there are those unique stories that cause oneÂ’s jaws to slacken. Those unique, imaginative capers that remind me again and again why protecting data is no laughing matter. For example, SSNs could be used to build up your wealth two cents at a time. Wired.com is reporting that a man in California, Michael Largen, did exactly...

Prevention is not the only element of security,-- digital age, or otherwise when an attacker is successful the next aspect of security is Detection and Response In our world today of course our electronic banking records make a tempting target for attackers. naturally we take reasonable precautions to keep key information from being lost but in addition we monitor balances and transaction records. I check mine pretty much week to week what about the accounts I don't know about? If attackers have stolen my key information, and in this day and age I think I need to proceed on the...

SAN JOSE, California (AP) -- Todd Davis has dared criminals for two years to try stealing his identity: Ads for his fraud-prevention company, LifeLock, even offer his Social Security number next to his smiling mug. Now, LifeLock customers in Maryland, New Jersey and West Virginia are suing Davis, claiming his service didn't work as promised and he knew it wouldn't, because the service had failed even him. Attorney David Paris said he found records of other people applying for or receiving driver's licenses at least 20 times using Davis' Social Security number, though some of the applications may have been...

Identity theft in America goes hand and hand with illegal immigration.As everyone knows, America is experiencing an epidemic of identity theft. In the last five years alone, complaints to the Federal Trade Commission from U.S. residents who have had their identity stolen have skyrocketed 60 percent, to 258,427 in 2007—one-third of all consumer fraud complaints that the commission receives. What’s less well understood, however, is how illegal immigration is helping to fuel this rash of crime. Seeking access to jobs, credit, and driver’s licenses, many undocumented aliens are using the personal data of real Americans on forged documents. The immigrants’...

MOUNT PLEASANT — Friends and family of the 46 people taken to jail by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in April met Sunday with supporters offering legal and emotional support. The federal government moved on Pilgrim's Pride Corp. facilities in Mount Pleasant and in four other states on April 16, gathering some 400 employees on various identity theft charges. A year-long investigation produced the arrests. It also produced a vacuum of information among much of the Latin immigrant community that feeds Pilgrim's Mount Pleasant workforce of about 3,300 people. That lack of information drew an attorney from the Mexican...

(from Laptop Security blog)Even the most carefully laid plans can go awry. Federal prosecutors charged a Southern Californian woman this week with aggravated identity theft after she used a genealogy website to locate people who had recently died and to take over their credit cards. Tracy June Kirkland was using Rootsweb.com to find the names, Social Security numbers and birth dates of people who had died. She would then call credit card companies randomly to see if "she" had an account, if "she" did, she would request a mailing address change and, in some cases, would add her own name...

The first defendants from the April 16 immigration raid at the local Pilgrim's Pride chicken processing plant will be in Federal Court in Chattanooga on Tuesday. They are due to appear at 2 p.m. before Magistrate Susan Kerr Lee for hearings on whether they should continue to be detained. They include: -Jose Luis Ramirez-Vasquez Authorities say he is an alien who was previously deported and came back into the U.S. at Lukenville, Ariz. -Alfred Gabriel-Torres (also known as Jaime Hernandez) He is charged with using an invalid Social Security card for citizenship purposes -Roberto Gabriel-Ramirez Officials said he was deported...

Taxpayer loses $34,000 refund to false filer By Seattle Times staff A Bellevue woman says someone else received her $34,000 tax refund after they fraudulently filed her tax return. The woman, whose name has not been released, contacted Bellevue police Thursday on the advice of the IRS. The woman told police she called the IRS and discovered her return had already been sent to an address in California, said Greg Gannis, spokesman for Bellevue police. The woman said her taxes had been filed at a storefront tax-preparation center in California under her name. "She lost $34,000 and some change," Gannis...

HIMSS Analytics (short for Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society); a “think-tank” for the healthcare management world has just released the 2008 HIMSS Analytics Report: Security of Patient Data. release info. This report examines the security of patient personal identifying information (PII) and protected health information (PHI). In the current data breach crazy world, this is a timely report which tries to get beneath the surface of the needs of health professionals to balance quick access to secure patient health records and the need to protect not only patient privacy but prevent access to information which could lead to identity...

Lifelock Getting Picked Since February 2008, Lifelock, the company that guarantees that your identity will not be stolen has been hammered by legal problems. Lifelock charges consumers $10 a month for the privilege of allowing the company to manage your Fair Credit Reporting Act right to a free initial security alert and which automatically opts out a consumer from pre-approved credit offers for six months. The Lifelock website states: LifeLock, the industry leader in proactive identity theft protection, offers a proven solution that prevents your identity from being stolen before it happens. We'll protect your identity and personal information...

PHOENIX, March 28 /PRNewswire/ -- Today an Arizona consumer filed a proposed class-action lawsuit against LifeLock, a heavily promoted company that claims to protect consumers against identity theft. The lawsuit alleges that the three-year-old company defrauds customers by offering services it cannot legally perform, and by touting a $1 million guarantee that the suit alleges is wildly misleading. Filed in United States District Court for the District of Arizona, the suit seeks to recover money consumers paid to LifeLock. LifeLock, headquartered in Tempe, Arizona, uses aggressive advertising to entice consumers to sign up for its $10-a-month service which it describes...

NEW CASTLE, Colo. — A Colorado man is accused of stealing an Army veteran's identity and using it for 24 years to get married, obtain free medical treatment and even serve as president of a VFW post. Mark Mulcahy, 46, faces felony charges of identity theft, forgery and criminal impersonation. He was being held in the Garfield County jail Friday in lieu of $45,000 bail. It wasn't known whether he had an attorney. Mulcahy obtained a military retirement document in 1984 in the name of David Keith Anderson of Modesto, Calif., according to an arrest warrant affidavit. Anderson, also known...

GILBERT, Ariz. -- An illegal immigrant was arrested after using the identity of a retired peace officer to gain employment, Maricopa County Sheriff's deputies said. Edgardo Alvarado-Navarro, 29, was arrested late Friday at his workplace, Roberts Tire Shop in Gilbert, deputies said. He was taken into custody wearing a uniform shirt with his victim's name patch on it, according to deputies. His arrest came after the officer called the sheriff's illegal immigration hotline to report an identity theft, sheriff's investigators said. During the investigation, Alvarado admitted using his victim's identity to gain employment, deputies said. Alvarado was booked into Maricopa...

Financial Privacy is Common Cents: Government should have warrant to look at private accounts Benjamin Barr, Goldwater Institute Daily Email, March 10, 2008 What’s the value of your financial privacy? You know, things like your checking account and banking records. For most of us, the less others know, the better. That’s why it comes as such a surprise that Arizona rates near the bottom of states when it comes to protecting financial privacy. According to the Federal Trade Commission, Arizona is the number one state for identity theft. And a private research firm reports that one in six Arizona adults...

You might call it a friends, family and ID thieves plan. Last year, identity thieves wormed their way into Michael Carner’s Sprint account, tacked on 14 new cell phones and began ringing up phone charges. Even though he reported the intrusion, things only got worse. For nearly a year, the real estate agent was hit with late fees, frequent automated collections calls, service interruptions, and a $5,000 bill. When Carner finally gave up and tried to cancel his account, Sprint had one more piece of bad news: The imposters had extended his service contract for two years, meaning he'd have...

Brownsville's Latino residents at high risk of identity theft Brownsville, Texas, a city of about 140,000 people, sits on the border with Mexico. It's the southernmost city in the Lone Star State and when it comes to crime, it is typical of most U.S. cities its size, except for one thing: it has an extraordinarily high rate of identity theft. "I would say that our particular substation takes about five or six identity theft reports each week," Lt. Mark Elbert, of the Brownsville Police Department, told ConsumerAffairs.com. "I suspect the department's Main Station and the West Side Station get more...

(CBS4) ― For the eighth straight year, the Federal Trade Commission reports that identity theft is the No. 1 consumer complaint it receives. According to the FTC, nearly 23,000 people become victims of identity theft every day. Now consumers can sign up with several different companies that all promise to help protect their identity. How well do they work? CBS4 found out, when it picked three popular companies and put them to the test. The first company is LifeLock. The CEO of LifeLock actually publishes his social security number to promote his company's ability to protect a person's identity. The...

Hurricane, W.Va. -- Hurricane police called a press conference Thursday to say they were investigating a restaurant in Putnam County. Detectives say they started taking a closer look at the Mi Pueblito restaurant when people came forward noticing purchases on their debit and credit cards, they didn't make. We're told there have been dozens of people that have come forward. Detectives in Hurricane say they're hearing about these types of situations at other restaurants in our region. At the press conference, police urged consumers to use cash instead of their debit or credit cards. Investigators say its easy for someone...

A new report by Identity Theft 911 says illegal immigration, fraudulent employment, methamphetamine use and the state's lack of enforcement have helped keep Arizona as the No. 1 spot for identity theft.

....... Among the 36, six had criminal convictions along with their immigration violations. In a news release, ICE highlighted two of the people arrested: • Merido Mazariegos, 32, of Guatemala, convicted of fifth-degree assault in Minnesota's Nobles County. • Jose Inocente Garcia-Huix, 38, of Guatemala, convicted in Nobles County last year for forging two state identification cards under aliases.

RIP-OFF ALERT: The Berkeley Center for Law and Technology analyzed corporate America to see which companies have the highest incidence of ID theft. The No. 1 company? Bank of America. BoA is the nation's second largest bank. (If you look at the numbers based on total customer base, BoA then actually comes in second behind HSBC). AT&T occupies the second slot, followed by Sprint (No. 3), JPMorgan Chase (No. 4) and Capital One (No. 5). Think about it: 3 of the first 5 are banks, which is understandable. But why are two phone companies way up there? The reason is...

<p>CARPENTERSVILLE, Ill. - Police say identity theft is the reason the Internal Revenue Service recently warned a seven-year-old boy from the northwestern Chicago suburb of Carpentersville that he owed back taxes on $60,000.</p> <p>Officers said Friday the second-grader's identity has been in use by someone else since 2001 -- not long after his birth.</p>

Although the Chino slaughterhouse case triggered national outrage and the nation's biggest meat recall, a second suspect faced only misdemeanor charges when he surrendered this week -- until his aliases and pending drug cases emerged. "His worst problem is the felony possession for sale. It's (punishable by) mandatory state prison," San Bernardino County Deputy District Attorney Debbie Ploghaus said Thursday of the defendant, whose true name she still doesn't know for certain. "We know him as Luis Sanchez, with a birth date of 3-8-75." Under that identity, he is one of two men charged in the Hallmark/Westland Meat Co. case...

McGrath probing service preventing identity theft By ERIN MADISON Tribune Staff Writer The Montana Attorney General's office is investigating LifeLock, a company profiled in Sunday's Tribune. LifeLock is an identity theft prevention service. Customers pay $10 per month to have a fraud alert placed on their credit reports and be opted out of pre-approved credit card offers. If one of LifeLock's members has their identity stolen, the company covers any losses up to $1 million. LifeLock previously ran a full-page ad in the Tribune, which included the Social Security number of the company CEO Todd Davis. That ad piqued the...

A trend embraced by white-collar criminals is driving up health-care costs and creating nightmares for its victims. Medical identity theft is health-care fraud and ID theft rolled into one, and it's a crime that's expected to continue growing because it's easy to carry out and difficult to detect. The first study on the subject, done by the World Privacy Forum (WPF) in 2006, estimates that medical identity theft accounts for 2.7 percent to 3.2 percent of total ID theft, which is reported to be the fastest-growing crime over the last seven years. In November 2007, the Federal Trade Commission estimated...

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The frustration of proving one's age to buy things like alcohol and tobacco does not end when you reach the appropriate legal age. Those of us who are fortunate enough to have a youthful appearance are forever burdened with having to carry a state-issued ID card to every place where we might want to buy alcohol or tobacco. Over the past few years, we've been gradually subjected to another, more intrusive ID-related hassle -- that of electronic drivers license scanning. It's one thing when a government representative scans your driver's license; it's another thing entirely when a restaurant does it,...

Anxiety is rising among local undocumented immigrants who fear they could lose their cars and mobile homes. Some fears may be unfounded. It comes as Indiana's Bureau of Motor Vehicles checks its driver's license and state ID card records with a Social Security database. In November, the bureau sent letters to 206,000 residents whose records didn't match -- a mix of races and situations that included native-born citizens and undocumented immigrants. If the mismatches aren't resolved by Jan. 31, licenses and ID cards will be revoked. And since Nov. 7, the BMV has been checking Social Security records before issuing...

More than 20 workers were arrested today at O'Hare International Airport after authorities said employees at a suburban staffing agency used fraudulent security badges to gain access to unauthorized areas of the airport. Many of the workers arrested were illegal immigrants, authorities said. The eight-month investigation led to the execution of a search warrant today at Ideal Staffing Solutions, 170 N. Pine Lane in Bensenville, and the arrests of two managers there: Mary Gurin, 36, of Carpentersville, and Norinye Benitez, 24, of Franklin Park, according to a statement from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Each was charged with one count...

Dozens of Employees Walk Away From Electrolux NewsChannel 5 looked into whether the plant employed illegal immigrants. Sources told NewsChannel 5 more than 100 workers have been let go in the past couple of days. The employees said it was complete chaos. According to a NewsChannel 5 source, so many workers have been let go that it has been hard to do their jobs at the Electrolux plant. Second and Third shifts have been hit the hardest, and they believe the company is taking action to fix a problem that should not have happened in the first place. Diane Casey...

For Lora and Jamey Costner, a $7,854 federal income tax bill is the painful indigestion that followed two unsatisfying servings of identity theft cooked up by two former Koch Foods employees... The criminal cases involving the Newport married couple and the two illegal immigrants, who IRS records indicate worked for Koch Foods, have been resolved in the court system. The bitter aftertaste that remains is the unpalatable possibility of having their wages garnished to pay tax bills on income they never earned ... "The overall burden of it all is crushing us, please help," the Costners wrote in an appeal...

Posted: Sun, 09 Dec 2007 12:54:00 +0000 Lifelock Vs TrustedID By Puripong Koomsin Each year, the cost of Identity Theft amounts to over 50 Million US Dollars and these numbers are steadily rising. Identity theft has been one of the most expensive crimes in the United States, costing both the government and individuals such a huge amount of money. Even though the crime is rising in numbers, most people still think that it may just be a result of isolated cases that have been blown out of proportion by the government and agencies that tend to gain from them. That...

This afternoon I found out that in the last three days someone did ATM withdrawals of $500 ea, the maximum daily withdrawal, from my bank account each day. So now I'm out $1500 for about 10 days which is when the bank said they'd refund me. Somehow they had not only my card number but also my pin number and I have absolutely no idea how they could get both. I was lucky that the bank put a hold on my account due to suspicious transactions and this is how I found out. BTW, this happened in Seattle.

Angela P. Williams says she got nothing but a runaround from Equifax as she tried for more than a decade to clear up an identity mix-up that ruined her credit. Now she's hitting the credit-reporting giant where it hurts: on the bottom line. An Orlando jury awarded Williams a multimillion-dollar verdict against Equifax for years of failing to correct dramatic errors in Williams' credit report that led to her credit score being trashed.

PHILADELPHIA - They were young, rich and in love. But the jet-setters financed their fun on the credit cards of unsuspecting neighbors in their high-end apartment building and other identity-fraud victims, police said Monday. The fraud scheme paid for jaunts to Paris, London and Hawaii and a stop at a tony salon for $1,700 worth of hair extensions, police said. Drexel University student Jocelyn Kirsch, 22, and beau Edward K. Anderton, a University of Pennsylvania graduate, were charged Friday with identity theft, forgery, unlawful use of a computer and a laundry list of other counts. "They were two young people...

The Government has accused China of carrying out an internet spying campaign against vital parts of the economy, it has been reported. The head of the MI5 sent a letter to more than 300 senior executives at banks, accountants and legal firms earlier this week warning them of a web-based attack from Chinese state organisations. The letter warns that British firms doing business in China are being targeted by the Chinese army, which is using the internet to steal confidential information to benefit Chinese companies. It is believed to be the first time the Government has directly accused China of...

HILLSBORO, Ore. - A college student from Washington County could be deported after trying to renew her driver's license at a local DMV. Alejandra Trujillo, 20, went to the Tanasbourne DMV office on Friday.     When a DMV worker asked her for identification, authorities say she handed over a fake Social Security card. The DMV worker called police  and they arrested Trujillo. Lt. Mike Rouches of the Hillsboro Police department said "at that point he [the officer] had probable cause to arrest her for the crime of criminal possession of a forged instrument." Wednesday evening, supporters of Trujillo picketed outside...

Alistair Darling was at the centre of a new storm over the loss of personal data last night as The Times learnt that six more CDs containing confidential information were missing in the Revenue & Customs internal post. The Revenue’s head office, which adjoins the Treasury, reported that the data was missing more than three weeks ago. It follows the Chancellor’s announcement this week that the details of 25 million people on two CDs were lost in the post because a junior official failed to follow security procedures. The new loss, however, will strengthen Tory claims that the fiasco is...

Ex-officer wants new start Awaiting sentencing, illegal immigrant plans for life in Mexico By BILL GLAUBER bglauber@journalsentinel.com Posted: Nov. 21, 2007 It was a name he put on like a new suit of clothes, a name that gave him a new identity, a chance to succeed as an illegal immigrant in America. But Oscar Ayala-Cornejo could never have imagined the long-term consequences of taking the name of his dead cousin, Jose Morales, and claiming his birth certificate, Social Security number, even a childhood immunization record. He was just a teenager when it happened in 1999, a kid taking direction from...

A San Antonio-based bank has refunded money and canceled debit cards that were used by identity thieves to make small political donations to the presidential campaign of U.S. Rep. Ron Paul, officials said Tuesday. Paul, R-Lake Jackson, and campaign staffers had no role in the scheme, and a Frost Bank official said customers received refunds for the unauthorized charges of $5 to the campaign. "It's unfortunate whenever it happens, but our campaign and Frost Bank took rapid action," said Jesse Benton, a Paul campaign spokesman. The campaign spotted something amiss when several hundred charges came in from similar Internet Protocol...

In what is being called a ” catastrophic failure” two computer discs holding the personal details of all families in the UK with a child under 16, receiving child benefits are missing. The discs apparently contain personal details including where relevant. The unimaginable loss means information on senior politicians, police officers and leading industrialists will be included in the missing data, which contains records on nearly half the UK’s 60.5 million population. It is reported that MPs gasped as Mr Darling revealed the scale of the loss in an emergency statement to the Commons. Two computer discs holding the personal...

Today I was notified that our credit card had been frozen because of suspected identity theft. The companies only charged $1, $5, and $17. The companies were Islamic Relief Fund and CCB or China Construction Bank. We have cancelled the card and new ones are being issued. My question to you freepers is, isn't this some sort of terrorism? And why only the small amounts? I am mad that even $1 of my money could have went to support terrorism. Is this maybe a way that they fund their work, unsuspecting people in the US?

More than three years after he was shot four times by Madison police during a night of bizarre behavior, a man who calls himself David Lopez Jr. will soon be released from a state mental hospital. If he were actually David Lopez Jr. he would walk out of the Mendota Mental Health Institute and return to society with a well-documented plan to keep up the treatment he 's been receiving for schizophrenia and drug and alcohol addictions. But his real identity is Carlos Toledo-Rubio, 26, an illegal immigrant from Mexico who followed a hometown friend to Madison to find work.It's...

TACOMA, Wash. - Immigration protestors marched through downtown Tacoma, stopping traffic and halting downtown bus service Friday. They're protesting federal immigration policy and the treatment of people at Tacoma's Northwest Detention Center, which holds as many as 1,000 people. Protestors vowed to shut down the city of Tacoma Friday. They fell short but did get their message across. Many wore bandanas over their faces to hide their identities. The protest had been planned for weeks. "When the ICE – Immigration Customs Enforcement - can come into our community, rip families apart, put people in jail. Whether or not they have...

An economist testified in federal court today that the practice of hiring undocumented workers at eight Tyson Foods plants allowed the company to pay wages far below what other companies paid unskilled workers. The testimony came during a hearing in a class-action civil lawsuit in which workers at Tyson plants are seeking damages for depressed wages that could top $25 million, according to a report compiled by economist George Borjas. Tyson attorneys contend there are problems with the data and are seeking to have Dr. Borjas' testimony excluded from the trial, which is scheduled for March 3, 2008. Chief U.S....

(CBS 11 News) CROWLEY Officials say thieves used a presidential campaign to rip people off. Christine Horton of Crowley said her account was charged several times to support Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul. "I had never even heard of him," she said. "I was like, 'Oh my God! Someone is stealing from me." Monday the Paul campaign made history. They raised more than $4 million online in 24 hours from more than 36,000 contributors. Frost Bank investigators discovered overseas thieves used Paul's Web site to test stolen cards with $5 contributions. "The Ron Paul campaign has noticed that dozens, perhaps...

A driver's license bureau employee who earned roughly $24,000 a year made thousands on the side illegally selling licenses to Brazilian immigrants, state authorities said. Cammie Gray Andres, 46, a driver's license bureau employee since 2000, illegally charged at least five undocumented Brazilians between $2,500 and $3,000 for driver's licenses, according to the Florida Highway Patrol. Using bogus Social Security numbers, Andres falsely issued them under a program designed to exchange licenses for valid ones from U.S. territories such as Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands. She faces multiple counts of unlawfully issuing driver's licenses, official misconduct and unlawful...