I. D. Vol puts more time in prison
In January, Ricardo Rodrigues uses a credit card, he receives with personal data stolen from a fall and ran up $ 17,000 worth of fraudulent charges.
Yesterday, it was the first man sentenced to Hawaii in the new countries strengthens the identity theft of the law, bedbugs two years deprivation of liberty associated with it for each crime.Rodrigues, 35, won only two years.
Without the new law, Rodrigues may not have received any time in prison, said Assistant U.S. Attorney Wes Porter.Porter’s head of state American lawyer Ed Kubo, announced the establishment of Hawaii identity theft and fraud Task Force “or” HIT identity fraud of the target of thieves.
“Any person who stole the identity of other states are now so at your own risk,” said Kubo.In addition to the U.S. Attorney’s Office, the Task Force consists of representatives from the U.S. Postal Inspection Service, FBI, Secret Service, Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the U.S. Marshals Service, Hawaii Attorney General, State Department of Commerce and Consumer Protection and local police services and De Landkreis floors.
Ten other defendants were collected, in accordance with the legislation, including two sisters, stole personal and financial information of individuals, e-mail-box, two men were captured, false identifications Waikiki in several rooms and a doorman at a bar - Waikiki, sells more than 300 stolen or confiscated identification cards.
According to the Federal Trade Commission, Hawaii, 18 low price of identity theft in the nation’s 50 states last year, but had the fifth highest unemployment rate of deception of consumers, complaints, which is someone a second, personal data.
Many victims of identity theft are elderly, does not react, they were victims because they embarrassing, and the pace of this recovery is weak, “said Barbara Kim Stanton, AARP state director of Hawaii .
She said, AARP, has launched an awareness campaign to help people age 50 and older to protect themselves, and they are encouraging reports, if the victim.
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