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 [...]

It’s so convenient to make purchases these days. Walk into the store, make your selection and then go to the cashier and “swipe” your debit card, punch in your PIN and be on your way. Who needs to carry cash?
I’m not advocating an end to debit or credit cards — heck, I use them all [...]

This story from Georgia nicely illustrates a point I made in an earlier post about how thieves obtain personal and financial information from consumers in order to commit crimes.
In this particular case, two servers who worked at an Applebee’s restaurant were gathering credit card numbers and providing them to another person who was using the credit card [...]