Investigators allege Ricardo Guedes was born in Brazil in 1972 but assumed a dead child's identity in 1998 when he successfully applied for a US passport.

"She even had boyfriends that believed that she was that age: 22 years old," Mountain View, Missouri, Chief of Police Jamie Perkins told the NYT.

The suspect acquired credit card information from "carding websites" on the dark web to carry out his scheme, the District Court said.

Federal officials have so far charged one Venezuelan in Florida with identity theft and conspiring to steal stimulus checks, the Miami Herald reports.

Greenberg's cooperation with prosecutors opens the possibility of a nightmare scenario for Rep. Matt Gaetz of Florida.

The man used the data to set up fake merchant accounts or sold it for personal gain, according to the indictment.

Scammers are trying everything to swindle vulnerable Americans during the coronavirus crisis. Since the government announced it would be sending direct payments of up to $US1,200 to qualifying Americans, the fraudulent schemes are ramping up. Remember: Most people who qualify to receive a stimulus check do not need to sign […]

NASA is probing the case of an astronaut who was accused of accessing her estranged wife’s bank account while on a six-month mission aboard the International Space Station. Summer Worden noticed her account had been accessed from a computer registered with NASA before she concluded that Anne McClain was spying […]

When someone else opened a credit card in my name, I found out immediately thanks to free credit monitoring from Credit Karma, which alerted me to the new account. I was able to call the card issuer and close the card before any charges were made, and the experience reminded […]

Capital One reported that it was hit with a data breach in late March affecting an estimated 100 million users in the US. The breach compromised approximately 140,000 customers’Social Security numbers and 80,000 linked bank account numbers. If you think you may have been affected, you have two options to […]

Capital One’s data breach in late March compromised data from over 100 million credit card applications Information including linked bank account numbers and Social Security numbers were leaked, leaving many vulnerable to identity theft. If you think you’ve been affected by identity theft, the Federal Trade Commission recommends that you […]

Capital One reported that it was hit with a data breach in late March. The breach affected an estimated 100 million users in the US, and approximately 140,000 customers’ Social Security numbers and 80,000 linked bank account numbers were compromised. The issuer said it will notify affected individuals and make […]

An unknown caller told me I was the victim of identity theft, which began a three-and-a-half hour call that fooled me into taking thousands of dollars out of my bank account to cooperate with a supposed federal investigation. Like most salesmanship, the scam worked best when I wanted to believe […]

We give a lot of our data to companies like Facebook, Google, and Microsoft. But we don’t always know how well that data is protected. Data breaches like Collection #1 or attacks like the T-Mobile hack happen way too frequently. And companies like Facebook have been criticised for uploading user […]

A new spammy viral post on Facebook is warning users about the purported risks of account “cloning.” Spoiler alert: There’s nothing to worry about. Impersonating accounts is already against Facebook’s rules, and is easy to detect – both by Facebook and other users. Copy-posting the chain-mail post “warning” about it […]

Some 30 million Facebook users were victims of the hacking attack it revealed recently. That attack exposed the personal information of many users, including their names, phone numbers, birth dates, and more. That kind of information could be used for identity theft and to compromise users’ financial and other accounts, […]

A massive attack on Facebook by unidentified hackers impacted 29 million people. The majority of data taken was personal names and phone numbers. For some people, much more information was taken – date of birth, location, religion, and a variety of other details. Facebook announced important new details Friday about […]