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...believe you have been a victim of identity theft, federal law allows you to place a fraud alert on your credit report for 90 days, legally compelling lenders to ask tougher questions to verify an applicant's identity. A company called TrustedID this week launches a new $7.95-a-month service to handle all the paperwork, every 90 days, to keep an alert on your file always. "The bureaus are inherently conflicted, wanting to sell information that needs protecting," says TrustedID co-founder Scott Mitic. The bureaus, not surprisingly, recommend buying different protection in the form of their monitoring services...
WHAT ABOUT FRAUD? Kate Spade has hired 13 law-school students to sit in front of a computer all day scouring for fakes. When they find one, they shut down the auction with the push of a button. Also, drop shops add a layer of accountability because now there's a real business you can look to if what you get is not what you ordered. You're no longer dealing with a stranger on the other...
...want to have a lot of abortion clinics questioning a woman and having the woman say ?well, I was raped four months ago, I need an abortion.? We?re trying to be sensitive to women who are legitimate rape victims-and not give abortion clinics a chance to commit fraud on system...
...show takes my mind out of the prison for a while. This is the best bit of prison for me. This and talking to my mum on the phone." Most of the women in Bronzefield are sent here on remand from local courts, waiting for sentencing on anything from fraud to murder. Few stay longer than a couple of months, when they're either released or moved on to more long-term accommodation. Which wreaks havoc with the performance schedule. "There's the constant worry that someone's going to be unconvicted or unsentenced and we'll lose them," says...
Just in case HOWARD STERN was running out of villains to decry on the air, his old boss, CBS CEO LES MOONVES, has stepped in to help. CBS Radio filed a fraud and breach-of- contract lawsuit seeking more than $200 million from the radio host, his agent and his new employer, Sirius Satellite Radio. The suit says Stern spent his last 14 months at CBS talking up Sirius and hiding a deal to earn stock for boosting his new company's subscriber numbers. Stern calls the suit a "personal vendetta." On the upside, it will give him months...