Bank of America's Unintended Consequence

Bank of America recently decided to assist illegal immigrants by giving them BoA credit cards without needing a valid social security number to get the card. The only stipulation is that you have a...

Radio Shack Sued For Throwing Away Customer Information

We've had plenty of stories about companies and gov't agencies losing laptops or hard drives potentially revealing a a ton of private info, but apparently Radio Shack decided to go a more low tech...

Social Security employee causing $2.5 million in credit card fraud reveals how easily information is

Recently, I blogged about a former IRS employee, who committed $330,000 of retail refund fraud (basically shoplifting) in nine states. This morning, I read about a former Social Security...

Airline employees and correctional officer arrested for credit card fraud

A lot of payment (credit/debit) card fraud is caused by dishonest employees, who skim the information from cards; or might even simply forget to return them to you. And when they “forget”...