Some scammers just aren’t content to scam the little guy. A 24-year-old Russian man targeted somewhat more well-to-do victims who were listed on the Forbes 400 richest people in the U.S.
Igor Klopov, the mastermind of the operation was arrested back in May and is being held in New York. His accomplices, some of whom he [...]

Now this should make you sleep better at night: In a recent audit, almost 60 percent of IRS employees that were targeted disclosed their computer access information to an auditor who was using ’social engineering’ techniques in an attempt to extract information from the employee.
Social engineering is different from so many of the high-profile [...]

It appears that two low-life corrections officers in Maryland demonstrated yet another innovative way to steal identities.
The Baltimore corrections officers were stealing credit cards belonging to the prisoners at Baltimore’s central lock-up! Look ma, another case of identity theft that does not involve computers or the Internet!
The crooked corrections officers apparently had a grand [...]