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In addition, stories about common financial crimes that affect scores of everyday citizens (Ponzi schemes; real estate and other investment frauds; bank robbery; identity theft; medical fraud; embezzlement; insurance fraud; murder-for-hire; art theft; credit card fraud; and, money laundering) are also featured.
In March 2005, U.S. Senator Patrick Leahy (D-VT) introduced the Anti-Phishing Act of 2005, a bill that proposes a five-year prison sentence and/or fine for individuals who execute phishing attacks and use information garnered through online fraud such as phishing and pharming to commit crimes such as identity theft.
Fraudulent theft: Illegal acquisition of a vehicle from a seller through fraudulent transfer of funds that the seller will ultimately not receive (such as by identity theft or the use of a counterfeit cashier's check).
Companies such as LifeLock and JPMorgan Chase have begun to capitalize on selling identity theft protection insurance.
LifeLock's CEO Todd Davis publicly posted his Social Security number on billboards and in TV commercials as part of a campaign to promote the company's identity theft protection services.
More recently, Todd Davis distributed his SSN in advertisements for his company's LifeLock identity theft protection service.
On December 13, 2006, Michael Chertoff (Secretary of Homeland Security), Julie L. Myers (Director of ICE), and Deborah Platt Majoras (Chair of the Federal Trade Commission) claimed responsibility for the raid and emphasized the importance of the identity theft charges.
Valid government issued photo identification is typically required to confirm the identity of applicants and in compliance with the Federal Trade Commission's (FTC's) identity theft Red Flags Rule.
Entertainment Weekly reviewed the book saying "Quadriplegic forensics whiz Lincoln Rhyme and his Glock-toting girlfriend, Amelia Sachs, track a serial killer who uses an all-knowing computer database to frame fall guys. Movie Pitch: Ironside meets CSI and Enemy of the State. Bottom Line: Rhyme still intrigues in his eighth outing, while Deaver's scarily believable depiction of identity theft in a total-surveillance society stokes our paranoia. A -."