Olson has made combating tax-related identity theft her top priority, as the number of stolen identity cases her office identified rose 644% in the past three years.
Although federal authorities also handle these cases, and IRS criminal investigators are highly proficient, the volume of IRS business means that, on average, it takes more than six months for stolen-identity cases to be resolved.
My office alone investigates approximately 200 to 300 new identity-theft cases each month.
The number of cases of identity fraud has grown in recent years.
If the police seek a warrant, for example, in some cases the identity of a particular person sought under the warrant may be kept confidential.
If federal law granted us direct access to the necessary documents, we could be doing much more to help identity-theft tax victims, bringing many more cases in state court and stopping many more identity thieves from ripping off taxpayers.
In other words, these aren't isolated incidents or cases of mistaken identity or simple errors.
She fears that scans done quickly in the field, or by inexperienced technicians, could lead to cases of mistaken identity.
The Federal Trade Commission recorded 670, 000 cases of reported identity theft and fraud in 2006, 60% of which began with Internet solicitations.
As Mukasey explained, "the government was required to disclose, as it is routinely in conspiracy cases, the identity of all known co-conspirators, " including Osama bin Laden.
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Across the country investigators are also examining nearly 900 cases of alleged identity fraud, where a candidate pays somebody else to sit the driving test for them.
"People are not objecting to dignified commemoration of historic events or indeed the respectful display of flags and emblems, but many people and those include people with relatives that were volunteers in the 36th Ulster Division during World War One, perceive the erection of flags without consultation and in some cases with masked identity to be intimidating and bad for community relations, " he added.
In case after case, we have brought identity thieves to justice, but these cases are generally not about tax-refund theft because of the federal restrictions.
Today, the school building has become a museum, exhibits of pocket watches and identity cards found on the victims stand in glass cases.
It includes old debts that are uncollectible due to the statute of limitations, those resolved in a bankruptcy and in some cases, debt that was the result of identity theft.
The solution he proposes shows how much quotas could change Brazilians' sense of who they are: in doubtful cases a commission would verify students' racial identity, overthrowing the idea that a person's race is what he says it is.
In those cases they request an in-person meeting to verify identity.
Mr. MALLORY DUNCAN (Vice President, National Retail Federation): The overwhelming majority of those are not true identity theft, the serious identity theft, but rather tend to be credit and bank fraud cases.
Protecting the identity of witnesses is a pre-condition to securing convictions in many cases of urban violence like this.
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But Mallory Duncan, vice president of the National Retail Federation, says what many call identity theft really isn't when you look closely at the 10 million cases reported each year.
Unlike personal computers, which in many cases are actually shared with other people, mobile devices carry a strong personal identity to their owners, manifested in the form of preferences, contacts, schedules and even location information.
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In some cases, the customer knows who has donated the sperm, although rules determining the identity of the donor vary from country to country.
The study found that far from creating superficial or fantasy identities that some critics suggest, in many cases it allowed people to escape the preconceptions of those immediately around them and find their "true" identity.
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