ID theft ring in Texas Medical Clinics

[Henry Brown <hbrown () knology net>]

> From  FortBendnow
http://tinyurl.com/575g9w

Local Medical Clinic Patients Among 500 Victimized In Major Identity 
Theft Ring

Sheriff's detectives are looking for a Fort Bend County medical clinic 
employee believed to have contributed patient information to a major 
area identity theft ring.

Tracy Spencer-Gilmore, formerly with Kelsey Seybold Clinic, was one of 
38 people indicted over the past several weeks in connection with an 
identity theft ring in which more than 500 people in four area counties 
were victimized, the Sheriff's Office said in a statement Thursday.

[...]

The last of those indictments were handed down by a Fort Bend County 
grand jury earlier this month.

[...]

Detectives believe Dixon used personal information from more than 500 
people in applying for more than 1,000 short-term "payday" loans valued 
at between $200 and $800 each, the Fort Bend Sheriff's Office said in a 
statement. Fraudulent loans are believed to have exceeded $230,000 in value.

[...]

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