Are cases of fraud not being reported enough in the news because if American citizens knew how many illegals commit this crime, they would demand more to be done?
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8 employees at Cape Girardeau restaurant charged with having fake Social Security cards
Saturday, June 27, 2009
By Brian Blackwell

Eight people have been charged with possession of false Social Security cards they used to work at a Cape Girardeau restaurant.

According to a news release from Cape Girardeau County Prosecuting Attorney Morley Swingle, six employees were arrested Friday morning at Casa Mexicana, 1832 N. Kingshighway. They are Fortino Reyes-Santiago, 47, Alma Reyes-Carmona, 21, and Norma Reyes-Carmona, 21, all of 3019 Themis St., Apt. 3; Juan Garcia, 31, and Constantino Bautista-Santes, 44, both of 3022 Mimosa Drive, Apt. 9; and Felix Zarate-Alavez, 25, of 3001 Themis St., Apt. A.

All are illegal aliens, the release said.

Two suspects are still at large: Catarino Ramirez-Melgar, 28, of 3010 Aspen Drive, Apt. D, and David Gerardo Moreno-Rodriguez, 28, of 2813 Whitener St.

Four of the eight charged have also been charged with identity theft for using Social Security numbers belonging to people from Arizona, Illinois, Tennessee and Wisconsin.

Two other employees — Fredrico Perez-Rodriguez, 31, and Fatima Tanoreo-Orocio, 21 — were taken into custody Friday morning for being illegal aliens,

The employees are being held at the Cape Girardeau County Jail.

Cape Girardeau Police Department spokesman Sgt. Jason Selzer said the business owner is not suspected of any wrongdoing.

8 employees at Cape Girardeau restaurant charged with having fake Social Security cards
Saturday, June 27, 2009
By Brian Blackwell

Eight people have been charged with possession of false Social Security cards they used to work at a Cape Girardeau restaurant.

According to a news release from Cape Girardeau County Prosecuting Attorney Morley Swingle, six employees were arrested Friday morning at Casa Mexicana, 1832 N. Kingshighway. They are Fortino Reyes-Santiago, 47, Alma Reyes-Carmona, 21, and Norma Reyes-Carmona, 21, all of 3019 Themis St., Apt. 3; Juan Garcia, 31, and Constantino Bautista-Santes, 44, both of 3022 Mimosa Drive, Apt. 9; and Felix Zarate-Alavez, 25, of 3001 Themis St., Apt. A.

All are illegal aliens, the release said.

Two suspects are still at large: Catarino Ramirez-Melgar, 28, of 3010 Aspen Drive, Apt. D, and David Gerardo Moreno-Rodriguez, 28, of 2813 Whitener St.

Four of the eight charged have also been charged with identity theft for using Social Security numbers belonging to people from Arizona, Illinois, Tennessee and Wisconsin.

Two other employees — Fredrico Perez-Rodriguez, 31, and Fatima Tanoreo-Orocio, 21 — were taken into custody Friday morning for being illegal aliens,

The employees are being held at the Cape Girardeau County Jail.

Cape Girardeau Police Department spokesman Sgt. Jason Selzer said the business owner is not suspected of any wrongdoing.
read what your Bible says against illegals. Jesus was not an illegal. lmfao!
Thank you lucero. It isn’t hate but brining it to the attention of others of what is going on.

The question in the case was whether workers who use fake identification numbers to commit some other crimes must know they belong to a real person to be subject to a two-year sentence extension for “aggravated identity theft.”

The answer, the Supreme Court said, is yes.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/05/us/05immig.html?ref=politics

anyone else think this is ridiculous?
well, judging by the thumbs down there are plenty of people who think it is okay to break the law.

Identity theft is raising topic in world crime diaries today. You will find many pages of crime diaries been written on identity theft. All countries departments are into searching for some very strict actions to take against those conducting such crimes. There have been many cases noted down on identity thefts. All over the world, many countries have started taking this crime very seriously. Past times did not observe so such of rise in this type of crimes. But changing technologies have introduced many such sophisticated criminals into this business.

Recent times have seen many scams on identity thefts and strict actions have also been taking against those found guilty of such crimes. Some countries have modified their justice books for introducing clauses for identity thefts while others have introduced new clauses for identity criminals. There are many such fields in which identity theft takes place. Let us see some identity theft prone areas.

Identity theft prone areas

One such is phishing mail. We often get mails saying that they are from our bank or credit card providers and they need our personal details for re verification process. We usually do not ignore such mails because they also have a clause that of you don’t reply in certain period of time, you may loose your service.

So naturally any one would reply to such mail and give all his personal details including name, address, telephone number and even account number. Such mails are usually fraud mails that are generated by identity thefts and they just want your personal details so that they can make money out of it. Another such story goes like this. One man got a text message on his mobile phone having advertisement of an exciting offer provided b their company.

It assured that they would give great ideas to pay off all your debts and also get free from mortgages within 10 years. He naturally called that number. They talked with him very politely and he was impressed seeing their service. He gave his details and then after some days he realised that he has been declared as criminal who has done mess with his credits with the bank and tried to take off all the debts and now he will fore go penalty of 2 million dollars! He was in total shock and did not realise what exactly had happened.

Some more stories

Another such story goes like a person was having transaction with his bank ATM card and some man was observing him entering his pin number. After some days, that card got stolen and he realised that at end of that day, he had lost his 40 thousand dollars from his bank account.

Another person had thrown a form having his personal details such as name, telephone number and his bank account number in trash can out side his house. After 3 days he found all money from his account was deducted and his account was closed. Many such stories go and hence you have to be very particular about disposing off your personal details also.

Mayor Bloomberg’s Identity Fraud Disaster

New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg has fallen victim to celebrity identity fraud. Two identity thieves forged checks on the mayor’s checking account, to the tune of $10,000! The celebrity identity fraud victim’s nightmare ended when the crooks got greedy. They tried to cash checks totaling more than $400,000 and they got busted during identity verification. The two men, Charles Nelson and Odalis Bostic, were charged with grand larceny and Nelson was also charged with identity theft.

Will Smith Becomes a Celebrity Identity Theft Victim

Movie hero Will Smith became a victim of identity theft when a man used Smith’s identity to open more than a dozen credit card accounts in Pittsburgh. The man ran up $33,000 in credit card charges before he was apprehended. At the time of his arrest, the thief was already on probation for identity theft crimes — against another celebrity victim! The man had already spent more than $80,000 on a credit card in basketball player Steve Smith’s name.

Credit Monitoring Prevents Identity Theft

You don’t have to be a celebrity to get world-class identity theft protection. A credit monitoring service provides you with updates and information about your credit history and credit score and immediately notifies you about suspicious behavior on your accounts. Your credit monitoring service will provide you with information about new accounts opened in your name and also will alert you when creditors request information about your credit history, which may indicate potential identity theft.

These institutions are part of government but are just section of government which works for consumer rights. Identity thefts are been reported to FTC also. Many people do such things of reporting their identity theft cases to FTC instead of reporting it to police department. It has been observed that after people experience such thefts, most of the people do not report it to department.

They do not report to FTC either. They are just casual about their things. They just inform the service providers of credit cards or bank ATMs if they are stolen. These service providers just blocks the service provided by those credit cards. They do not report this crime to anybody. This does not help the police to find such criminals. This proves beneficial for the criminals and they get another chance to do such crimes. But if the crimes are reported, police start to trace those criminals and hence they have themselves on the record of the department. Hence if another similar crime occurs, then it is easy to trace them.

How does FTC handle identity theft?

You can file a compliant of identity theft with the FTC. But before you file any compliant, you need to know some important things. FTC gathers complaints about various companies doing frauds, malpractices in the business, identity thefts and also if there is any violence of any rights by the media and more. If you are related to any crime in any of the above mentioned field, then you can file a compliant with FTC. Once compliant is filed, FTC carries out further procedures of investigations and prosecutions.

All these action that are taken by department are then taken by FTC. It has a secured database called as Consumer Sentinel which is used by worldwide authorities of criminal law enforcements and thousands of civil law enforcement authorities also. One important thing to remember is that FTC does not resolve individual consumer complaints. They resolve complaints of previously mentioned sectors. If you have an individual compliant about some identity theft due to some criminal which is an individual, then you have to note a compliant with the department.

Other important suggestions

The level of personal information that you provide is up to you. You need not provide all your details to FTC, but the mandatory by them has to be provided. Policies of how to safeguard personal information you are also provided by the FTC. Mandatory information has to be provided because in case of investigation, if you don’t provide your name and address correctly, it becomes impossible to carry out further procedures.

Paperwork to be carried out is also reduced by FTC. It is less compared to what you have to carry out when you go for launching a compliant in department. It has become more user friendly and you save considerable amount of time.

Such messages are normally sent to people’s inboxes. Some people do not think that they can be victims of online identity theft thus they do not normally take the necessary precautions. If you respond to such messages that are supposedly from online tax agents, your details will be used to operate several credit cards and sometimes withdrawing money from your bank account.

These activities may make you bankrupt. Computer identity theft cases are normally planned and executed by highly ingenious individuals. They sometimes design websites that look exactly like other original company websites. The only difference is that they provide a link to another web page which will usually require you to upload your personal data.

It is the personal data that they use to carry out computer identity theft. Computer identity theft cases have increased over the years according to a report from the Federal Trade Commission. The number of computer identity theft cases is doubling each year. A research carried out two years ago showed that approximately fifteen million Americans were victims of computer identity theft cases in a year.

The computer identity theft victims lose more money than they are getting. The effects of the computer identity theft cases on the economy are enormous because they run into billions of dollars. The computer identity thieves are very fast in their act and it is thus very difficult to catch up with them. The only option therefore is to try as much as possible to minimize its chances.

One of the most effective ways of preventing computer identity theft cases is by using identity theft protection service. These services takes a proactive approach to computer identity theft. It is thus a sure way of minimizing computer identity theft cases. The advantage of identity theft protection service is that it can be used across the board by either individuals or companies that may suffer from computer identity theft cases.

Individuals who would like to prevent themselves from suffering huge loses through computer identity theft have to register as members. The benefits that will accrue to you might leave you wondering why this system was not discovered earlier.

It is always good to guarantee your name through safe and tested methods. Otherwise, the costs of trying to redeem it after being a victim of computer identity theft might be very costly.

More About Identity Theft Cases
There is really so much that needs to be known when it comes to identity theft cases, and so if you want to protect yourself as best as you can, then you are going to want to know as much about identity theft cases and identity theft in general that you can. One thing in particular that you are going to want to do is go into your bank and speak to a financial advisor.

You are going to want to do this because they are going to be able to let you know what you can do and the steps that you can take in order to protect yourself against identity theft; they will be able to take steps that will better protect your personal information and your banking account, and so you are definitely going to want to make sure that you do this.

whilst you are there you can talk to them about the danger of identity theft, and they will be able to tell you things that you should and should not do. For instance, one of the most major things that they will tell you right off the bat is that you should never leave your bank slips or receipts by the ATM after you deposit or withdrawal money, for instance, because someone could take this and using the information on it they could steal your identity.Also never give out your PIN number to anybody on the telephone or over the web.

Another good practice is to make sure that all of your identification is safe and secure in whatever you carry it around in, and that you only bring the essentials around with you. For instance, you are basically never going to need your birth certificate when you are out, and so you are going to want to leave something like that at home, because if you do bring it out then you are just risking being an identity theft victim that much more.