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Death Fraud
Food stamp fraud is big business, and an increase in investigations has revealed that a large portion of this type of fraud occurs due...
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Overstaying Your Welcome
Fraudsters tend to think that sham marriages are an easy path to gaining U.S. Citizenship. As evidenced by the actions of two immigrants from...
Unqualified
In the State of Kansas, home health care services are available to qualified seniors and individuals with disabilities who want to live independently in...
COVID Feature: Looking for a Cure
You can be sure that everyone is searching for a COVID-19 cure. (Medical professionals and research scientists around the world are working on it,...
Repeat Offenders
It is interesting to examine the rate of recidivism, or the tendency for a convicted criminal to become a repeat offender. According to a...
FEDERAL FRAUD
A 27-Year “Mistake”
An Ohio man pleaded guilty in 2019 to Social Security Fraud after spending his mother’s social security checks for 27 years after she died…...
A Storm of a Lie
Wherever there is a disaster, it seems there is someone trying to cash in on it. But, what most fraudsters don’t realize is that...
When Lying is a Felony
There are lies, and then there are lies. Given the subject, some are a way to spare someone’s feelings; others are a lapse in...
Guardian Demon
Court-appointed guardians and conservators are entrusted to protect the personal and financial interests of those they represent. Instead, one Washington guardian betrayed this trust...
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Reducing Identity Theft Refund Fraud
Combatting tax refund identity fraud is a top priority for the Internal Revenue Service (IRS). The agency's website reports that through November of 2015,...
The Importance of Tax Identity Theft Awareness Week
Deborah Smith, MBA, LexisNexis Risk Solutions
Former Executive Director, Personal and Business Taxes, Ohio Department of Taxation
Tax season has arrived. In addition to collecting and...
What Does Fraud Actually Do to its Victims?
In honor of International Fraud Awareness Week (November 12-18), a worldwide event which serves to get the word out about fraud and its related crimes, organizations are working to help consumers and businesses understand not just the things they can do to minimize their risk of identity theft, but also the very serious ways that being a victim can hurt you. For more than a decade, the Identity Theft Resource Center has compiled the Identity Theft: The Aftermath report, which surveys victims who have previously contacted the nonprofit organization about their identity theft problems.
Knowledge is Power. Protect Your Personal and Financial Information.
In this day and age, tax fraud and identity theft is a business. Unfortunately, there are people that make a career out of defrauding...
