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Sheriff Ric Bradshaw and the Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office have partnered with theAudible Media Group on a new state-of-the-art traffic application designed to provide residents with voice-activated, user-controlled, on-demand, audio traffic reports and PBSO breaking news and alerts, Chie...
07/23/2014
In litigation aimed at fraudulent business practices within the mobile telephone industry, the Federal Trade Commission on Tuesday accused T-Mobile of making hundreds of millions of dollars by scamming customers with unauthorized text message charges, according to FTC Consumer Protection Di...
07/02/2014
While the jury duty scam reported in April is still going strong, some Broward County residents are now being targeted by a new type of scam, Howard Forman, Broward County Clerk of the Court told Examiner on Wednesday. In this particular scam, alleged victims are receiving a fake notice or s...
05/14/2014
Attention Target shoppers. Expect more, pay less has brought new meaning as an offer of free credit monitoring may not be enough to prevent identity theft, according to Consumer Reports. The offer of “free” credit monitoring may also give shoppers a false sense of security into believing they ar...
04/16/2014
Although the federal tax deadline has now passed, hundreds of thousands of Americans have reportedly been victimized by the No. 1 crime in the United States - identity theft. Or in the case of the illegally filed income tax return — tax return identity theft. So lucrative is the crime of tax ret...
04/16/2014
As a nationally recognized credit repair and identity theft expert, Bill Lewis of William E. Lewis Jr. & Associates - a solutions based professional consulting firm specializing in the discriminating individual, business or governmental entity – announces the opening of a branch office in Vero B...
04/16/2014
As a nationally recognized credit repair and identity theft expert, Bill Lewis of William E. Lewis Jr. & Associates - a solutions based professional consulting firm specializing in the discriminating individual, business or governmental entity – announces the opening of a new office in Davie, Fl...
04/12/2014
Identity theft and tax return identity theft charges were announced Thursday against 25 defendants in 19 separate cases, according to United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, Wifredo A. Ferrer. Dealing with thousands of stolen identities and millions of dollars of fraudulent ...
04/12/2014
Eight defendants have been charged with participating in a conspiracy to unjustly enrich themselves by stealing personal identifying information and using the information to make unauthorized wire transfers from victim bank accounts and obtaining unauthorized credit or debit cards, according t...
04/12/2014
Mortgage borrowers may now qualify for an FHA mortgage under new guidelines established by the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), according to Eli Younes of Viking Realty Group in Pembroke Pines on Tuesday. As a result of the housing collapse, many homeowners experienced a seri...
04/12/2014