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Woman Steals Thousands in Identity Theft Fraud

By Steven Rodriguez

A 27-year-old Utah woman has been charged with defrauding people of thousands of dollars in California, Utah and Oregon. She bilked her own mother-in-law out of thousands of dollars in unauthorized credit card charges and illegally obtained loans. She swindled a California man out of $14,343 through fraudulent wire transfers to a bank account. In Oregon, the woman used forged checks to steal $4,000 from a neighbor. The woman is charged with a series of felonies, including identity fraud, communications fraud, theft and forgery. Identity theft is the fastest growing crime in California, affecting 20,000 people every day. Identity theft occurs when someone uses another person’s personal identification information, without authority, to falsely pose as that person to commit fraud and gain access to the other person’s finances...continue to full post

Full post as published by LA Criminal Defense Blog on May 05, 2008 (boomark / email).