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Do You Know Where Your Identity Is?

Brian Krebs writes on Security Fix:

Nadine Nicolas, a 35-year-old security guard for a gated community in Lauderdale Lakes, Fla., woke up one morning in April 2005 to the sound of a policeman pounding on her front door and armed with a warrant for her arrest: She was wanted for a misdemeanor and three felony charges stemming from check fraud and counterfeiting. Nicolas explained that she had recently lost her drivers' license and that someone must have stolen her identity.

Nevertheless, Nicolas was arrested, brought to the station house, fingerprinted and then spent the night in jail. The crimes of which she was accused were committed in another area several counties away in northern Florida, in places she told police she had never before visited. Someone using her identity had created counterfeit checks, and then used her identity to cash them in at local banks and supermarkets.

posted by Fergie @ 2/20/2006 11:23:00 AM