Identity Theft

[Jeffrey Walton <noloader () gmail com>]

[Businesses were unnamed in the article]

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/money_co/2011/09/nascar-goods-medicare-fraud-your-weekly-scamwatch.html

A Northern California man pleaded guilty to conspiracy and identity
theft charges related to an identity theft ring that victimized 29
people, Atty. Gen. Kamala D. Harris said in a news release. Nick Luu,
30, of Vallejo will face a sentence of four years in state prison in a
plea agreement with prosecutors, Harris said. During a six-month
period in 2009, Luu and five other people stole personal information
from a variety of sources, including records at a San Jose law office
and a Santa Clara dental office where some of the conspirators worked.
They used the stolen information to set up credit card accounts in the
victims’ names and used the cards to steal nearly $200,000,
prosecutors alleged...
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