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IDENTITY THEFT UP 5-FOLD UNDER OBAMA's IRS
http://blogs.reuters.com/reuters-money/2011/05/27/irs-sees-staggering-jump-in-identity-theft-cases/ | May 2011 | Mitch Lipka

Posted on 07/04/2012 9:14:30 PM PDT by MrChips

Identity theft fraud caught by the IRS has skyrocketed since 2008, the Government Accountability Office said in a report released this week.

n 2010, the GAO said the IRS found 245,000 cases of identity fraud — cases in which Social Security numbers of others were used to either falsely try to collect a refund or to get work and avoid taxes. That is up from fewer than 52,000 cases in 2008.

A particularly scary part of the crime is that the victims have no way to protect themselves.

“The incidence of tax-related identity fraud is indeed staggering,” said Paul Stephens, director of policy and advocacy for Privacy Rights Clearinghouse. “The number of reported cases significantly undercounts the actual numbers because there tends to be a significant delay in detecting most cases of tax-related identity fraud.” (more . . . .)


TOPICS: Society
KEYWORDS: identitytheft; irs; sourcetitlenoturl; vanity
This is an old article. I will look for others. But it is timely in the midst of recent discussion here os Obama's own social security number.
1 posted on 07/04/2012 9:14:41 PM PDT by MrChips
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To: MrChips

thats a huge crime increase.


2 posted on 07/04/2012 9:16:58 PM PDT by dalebert
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To: dalebert

Yep, and I am one of the victims. I am trying to find a more recent article.


3 posted on 07/04/2012 9:22:35 PM PDT by MrChips (MrChips)
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To: MrChips

Let`s play “Follow the Leader.”


4 posted on 07/04/2012 9:29:48 PM PDT by bunkerhill7 (SS SOB? Who knew? .)
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To: bunkerhill7

More here . . . http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/2902951/posts?page=1


5 posted on 07/04/2012 9:49:38 PM PDT by MrChips (MrChips)
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To: MrChips

Seriously, someone queue in Pink Panther suit with tail with an Obama face and Henry Mancini Panther music.


6 posted on 07/04/2012 10:50:31 PM PDT by BerryDingle (I know how to deal with communists, I still wear their scars on my back from Hollywood-Ronald Reagan)
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To: dalebert

I guess that invasive 2010 census form wasn’t doing the trick...


7 posted on 07/05/2012 12:46:28 AM PDT by Enduro Guy
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To: MrChips
This would make sense, since Ubama himself is a documented identity thief with at least 25 social security numbers connected to his name.
8 posted on 07/05/2012 6:33:51 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (Government is the religion of the sociopath.)
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To: BerryDingle

Da da da da . . . Da da da da . . . :-)


9 posted on 07/05/2012 6:42:37 AM PDT by MrChips (MrChips)
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To: All

10 posted on 07/05/2012 6:49:58 AM PDT by Hotlanta Mike (Resurrect the House Committee on Un-American Activities (HUAC)...before there is no America!)
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To: MrChips

Plenty of that theft is done by our esteemed goobermint employees.

http://www.google.com/search?q=irs+workers+sentenced&hl=en&biw=776&bih=438&um=1&tab=iw&gs_sm=&gs_upl=12969l21140l0l21531l30l23l0l1l0l7l390l3295l0.6.6.2l14l0&gs_l=serp.3.1.0l2.1890l1890l0l4609l1l1l0l0l0l0l109l109l0j1l1l0.frgbld.&oq=irs+workers+sentenced

ALL YOUR DATA ARE BELONG TO US


11 posted on 07/05/2012 9:17:42 AM PDT by TurboZamboni (Looting the future to bribe the present)
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Did you hear what transpired in Austin today? Big bust of the IRS office giving Social security numbers to illegals.


12 posted on 07/05/2012 10:09:47 AM PDT by MrChips (MrChips)
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Austin IRS hit with audit for mismanagement and fraud, Illegals get large tax refund checks

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2903046/posts
Si, amigo. stupid gringos can pay and pay!


13 posted on 07/05/2012 10:49:11 AM PDT by TurboZamboni (Looting the future to bribe the present)
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