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ID theft probe in Southern California
From: Henry Brown <hbrown () knology net>
Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2007 08:23:15 -0500
I.D. Theft Probe Focuses On O.C. Car Dealership (CBS) ORANGE, Calif. Investigators carted away 350 boxes of business records from an Orange car dealership as part of a probe into allegations that loan applications contained stolen identity information, an official said. Orange County District Attorney's office spokeswoman Susan Schroeder said it could take months to go through the materials, such as loan records, computers and hard drives from Douglas Nissan of Orange. The DA's office received complaints that "stolen ID was used to facilitate loan documents," Schroeder said. She said did not know if the allegations centered around individual customers who "all happened to shop" at Douglas or if any workers were involved. As to the number of potential victims, Schroeder said, "It's just too early to tell." "Basically what happened is that (party) A would come in for a loan document and fill it out with (party) B's information," she said. The victim may never know about it unless something happens like a default in payments, she said. The investigation began three months ago when the DA's office realized that a common thread in a rash of reports was Douglas Nissan, she said. "We believe that thousands of applications possibly have stolen identification," Schroeder told reporters. "We're in the beginning process of the investigation and we'll be looking at this to determine how many identities were stolen to process false applications." http://cbs2.com/local/local_story_191030940.html _______________________________________________ Dataloss Mailing List (dataloss () attrition org) http://attrition.org/dataloss Tracking more than 211 million compromised records in 717 incidents over 7 years.
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