Two suspected mail thieves were thwarted by a Santa Barbara woman with Apple AirTag who was fed up with her mail being repeatedly stolen…
Tag: identity theft
Apple’s ‘Find my’ app helps bust sex trafficker
Apple’s ‘Find my’ app has helped to bust an alleged sex trafficker. A New Orleans man is accused of prostituting his girlfriend in a number of U.S. states…
Fourteen indicted in $6 million counterfeit iPhone and iPad scheme
A federal grand jury indictment was unsealed today charging fourteen alleged members of an international criminal organization with dozens of fraud, conspiracy, identity theft and money laundering charges related to their multi-million-dollar counterfeit iPhone and iPad scheme…
Fourteenth person charged with felony counts of burglary, identity theft and retail theft at Apple Deer Park store
In the latest report of attempted theft at the Deer Park Apple Store…
Officials charge six people in attempted fraud at Chicago-area Apple stores
Six people from New York state have been charged in ‘an organized criminal enterprise’ during which fraudulent transactions…
Warning: Beware of ‘Apple ID expiration’ phishing scam
Apple users are receiving phishing messages designed to trick them into handing over their Apple ID passwords and…
Banks at fault for high fraud rates in Apple Pay
When Apple was planning its Apple Pay electronic payment system last summer…
Apple Pay offers state-of-the-art security; dangers of fraud wildly overhyped
This is a tempest in a teapot…
Banks rush to stem tide of fraudsters using stolen credit cards with Apple Pay
Criminals in the US are using the new Apple Pay mobile payment system…
Russian crime ring steals 1.2 billion user name and password combinations, 500 million email addresses
A Russian crime ring has amassed the largest known collection of stolen Internet credentials…
ACLU files complaint with U.S. FTC: Mobile carriers fail to provide security for Android phones
The America Civil Liberties Union filed a complaint with the Federal Trade Commission…
Police bust up New York-based crime ring focused on Apple products
A New York-based crime ring that used forged credit cards to buy and resell Apple products overseas…
Massachusetts Attorney General, victim of iTunes fraud, says she’ll demand answers from Apple
“Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley said on Tuesday that her office…
