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...crime's biggest growth markets. A name, address and Social Security number - which can often be found on the Web - is all anybody needs to apply for a bogus line of credit. Credit companies make $1.3 trillion annually and lose less than 2% of that revenue to fraud, so there's little financial incentive for them to make the application process more secure. As it stands now, it's up to you to protect your identity...
...think you're a victim of identity theft, you can ask for fraud alerts to be put on file at each of the three credit-report companies. You can also download a theft-report form at www.consumer.gov/idtheft, which, along with a local police report, should help when irate creditors come knocking. Just don't expect justice. That audacious help-desk worker was one of the fewer than 2% of identity thieves who are ever caught...
Still, Bassnan was charged with visa fraud and deported on Nov. 17, and the FBI hasn't closed the investigation into his and Bayoumi's finances. The princess has her accountant scrutinizing all the checks from the account in question; no doubt she and her husband will think twice the next time someone begs their generosity. --By John Cloud. Reported by Massimo Calabresi, Elaine Shannon and Adam Zagorin/Washington
...perhaps, which is why Chris Harn, Derrick Davis and Glen DaSilva, all 29, are facing federal fraud and conspiracy charges in White Plains, N.Y. Had a few more railbirds or telebettors got as lucky at the Breeders' Cup races on Oct. 26, track officials in Arlington Heights, Ill., might not have noticed a curious wagering pattern--part of a day of gambling that made one solitary punter $3.1 million richer. But when a 44-to-1 shot named Volponi blew away the field in the final race, he left behind thousands of Ultra Pick 6 losers and only one winner...
...late September 2001, he was charged in the U.S. with visa fraud and arrested by Scotland Yard at the request of the FBI. He was held for some months on that immigration charge while both the bureau and Scotland Yard investigated him for possible connections to al-Qaeda. None were found, despite, sources say, intensive reviews of his phone calls, other communications, bank accounts and associates...