Identity Resolution Daily Links 2007-12-17
“It’s a shoplifter’s dream out there. The malls are chaotic and stores are seriously understaffed – often manned with seasonal part-timers. Everywhere you look, merchandise is enticingly presented – out in the open to encourage a playful interaction between people and products. And while video surveillance cameras and security guards do their best to separate the shoppers from the lifters, profits are disappearing. . . . To wrap the whole experience up, now the Internet is providing a perfect outlet for e-fencing stolen merchandise. Certainly the shady pawnshops, sketchy flea markets and creepy guys wearing trench coats lined with wristwatches are working overtime – but moving the ‘merch’ online is profoundly more efficient. . . . Estwick says the problem of organized retail theft escalated here last year because the U.S. toughened its stance, mostly by involving the FBI. The hard-line approach drove the criminals north , she says.”
Law.com: Pa. Attorney Charged in Insurance Fraud Case
“Personal injury attorney H. Allen Litt, 58, of Bryn Mawr, Pa., has been charged along with 14 others in a scam involving falsifying personal injuries from made-up or exaggerated slip-and-fall and auto accident cases and submitting fraudulent insurance claims, Philadelphia District Attorney Lynne Abraham said. . . .The investigation into Litt and his alleged cohorts began with an October 2004 tip from an insurance fraud investigator with Chubb Insurance Co., Abraham said.”
Jeff Jonas: The Vegas Asymmetric Threat
“Beyond a new look, opportunists will claim false identities and carry false credentials. There is one particular subject I am familiar with that has used over 30 very different aliases and a handful for different social security numbers and dates of birth.”
pennlive.com: W.Va. man charged in fatal crash charged with insurance fraud
“A West Virginia man accused of killing five people and injuring seven others while driving drunk lied to PennDOT to get a driver’s license, the Pennsylvania Attorney General’s office said Thursday. Brian Stone, 33, of Morgantown, indicated on a 2003 Pennsylvania license application that he had never been arrested or cited for a violation that carries a penalty of license suspension or revocation, the attorney general said Thursday. . . . He was accused of registering a vehicle in Pennsylvania using a Fayette County post office box and of not having insurance. He was charged in Pennsylvania with tampering with public records and insurance fraud.”
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