corporate identity theft in colorado

[Henry Brown <hbrown () knology net>]

http://www.networkworld.com/news/2010/071610-colorado-warns-of-major-corporate.html
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Colorado's Secretary of State and other officials are warning the 
state's 800,000 or so registered businesses to watch out for scammers 
who have been forging business identities to make fraudulent purchases 
from several big-box retailers in recent months.

So far, at least 35 businesses in the state have had their corporate 
identities misused to open fraudulent credit accounts at retailers such 
as Home Depot, Lowe's, Office Depot, Apple and Dell . According to the 
Colorado Bureau of Investigation (CBI), the scammers so far have made at 
least $750,000 in fraudulent purchases from Home Depot alone after 
opening up lines of credit there using forged corporate identities.

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