Jennifer Aniston Says Credit Card Scam Suspect ‘Not Cool’-Says Bill O’Reilly’s Statement is “unfair”
CNN.com article:
Federal agents: Celebrity ‘skin artist’ was a scam artist
By Alan Duke, CNN
August 18, 2010 8:18 p.m. EDT
Actress Liv Tyler suffered $214,000 in fraudulent charges, authorities said.
Los Angeles, California (CNN) — The woman who Jennifer Aniston, Cher, Melanie Griffith and other stars have trusted with their skin allegedly couldn’t be trusted with their credit cards, according to federal authorities.
Federal agents arrested Beverly Hills spa owner Gabriella Perez on charges of using her celebrity clients’ credit card information to make fraudulent purchases totaling at least $280,000, according to the U.S. Attorney’s office in Los Angeles.
Perez, who described herself as a “skin artist” on her business website, was arrested without incident Wednesday afternoon, the prosecutor’s office said.
Chez Gabriela Studio is “the temple of beauty” for Beverly Hills, its website said.
“Gabriela is my favorite kicking facialist,” the website quoted Cher saying. “She is the Michelangelo of skin care!”
The criminal complaint named actress Liv Tyler as a major victim, with $214,000 in allegedly fraudulent charges made by Perez on her American Express card last year.
High-end jewelry designer Loree Rodkin was the first client to alert federal investigators, the complaint said.
The complaint alleges Perez “fraudulently charged numerous times on her (Rodkin’s) Visa credit card from the studio.”
When Rodkin’s lawyer tried to resolve the charges with Perez, she allegedly offered her $25,000 in services in exchange for the $68,000 in allegedly fraudulent charges, the complaint said.
The list of victims, based on information given to investigators by Rodkin’s lawyer, included Cher, Aniston, Tyler, Griffith, Anne Hathaway and Scott Speedman, the complaint said.
The spa’s website says its celebrity clientele also includes Halle Berry, Penelope Cruz, Amber Valletta and Mia Wasikowska.
Video from ABC’s Good Morning America
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RFID blocking passport sleeve and credit card sleeve
Demonstration of Identity Stronghold Secure Sleeve in action in Washington DC at the Avisian FIPS 201 breakfast. The sleeve blocks RFID or Contactless chips from activating. Secure Sleeve blocks EPC Gen2 UHF as well as ISO 14443 and ISO 15693 signals. Go to http://www.idstronghold.com to order.
Duration : 0:2:55
Categories: Credit Card Interest Rates Tags: 201, Block, cac, cage, card, Chris, civil, cloning, computer, contactless, credit, debit, e-Passport, EDL, electronics, epassport, faraday, fips, forensics, gadget, HACK, hacking, Hspd-12, hspd12, identity, liberties, Linc-Pass, mifare, paget, Passport, piv, privacy, research, RFID, Secure, security, Shield, shmoocon, skimming, Sleeve, theft, transit, vulnerability, war
Scammers get scammed by Scambaiters www.IDTheftSecurity.com
Scammers get scammed by Scambaiters 419 Nigerian Phishers try to lure and scam, but get scammed themselves. www.IDTheftSecurity.com
Duration : 0:3:55
Categories: Credit Card Scams Tags: 419, bait, ebay, fraud, identity, nigerian, phish, phisher, scam, scambait, scambaiter, scammer, theft
Debit Card Scams
Businesses can take steps to reduce the chances of their point-of-sale debit card machines being tampered with.
Duration : 0:1:46
Categories: Credit Card Scams Tags: Business, cards, debit, identity, interac, machine, point-of-sale, theft
Dallas Channel 8 & IDStronghold about RFID credit card theft
This story ran in Dallas, Houston, Austin and San Antonio about how you can protect yourself from identity theft and payment fraud if you carry RFID enabled or contactless credit cards, debit cards, transit cards, TWIC cards, CAC cards, PIV cards and passports. These cards have tiny radios in them that can be scanned through your purse or wallet without touching you. It highlights Identity Stronghold’s RFID Blocking Wallet, Secure Badgeholder, and Secure Sleeve products.
Duration : 0:2:39
Categories: Credit Card Repair Tags: Badgeholder, cac, contactless, fraud, id, identity, idstronghod, payment, RFID, Secure, skimming, Sleeve, stronghold, theft, twic
Free Credit Repair & Free Credit Reports at www.e-Credit.TV
Go to www.e-Credit.TV for Free Credit Repair, Free Credit Books, Consumer Credit Counseling, Debt Consolidation and Identity Theft Protection. In this video the U.S. Treasury Dept. explains how to obtain free credit reports from all three of the credit bureaus. The video also explains how Fraud Alerts work and the activation process.
Duration : 0:2:11
Categories: Credit Repair Scores Tags: Books, consolidation, consumer, counseling, credit, debt, free, identity, protection, repair, theft
Deter – Detect – Defend Against Identity Theft
In the course of a busy day, you may write a check at the grocery store, charge tickets to a ball game, rent a car, mail your tax returns, change service providers for your cell phone, or apply for a credit card. Chances are you don’t give these everyday transactions a second thought. But an identity thief does.
Identity theft is a serious crime. People whose identities have been stolen can spend months or years and thousands of dollars cleaning up the mess the thieves have made of a good name and credit record. In the meantime, victims of identity theft may lose job opportunities, be refused loans for education, housing, or cars, and even get arrested for crimes they didn’t commit. Humiliation, anger, and frustration are among the feelings victims experience as they navigate the process of rescuing their identity.
Working with other government agencies and organizations, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has produced this booklet to help you remedy the effects of an identity theft. It describes what steps to take, your legal rights, how to handle specific problems you may encounter on the way to clearing your name, and what to watch for in the future.
Duration : 0:9:59
Categories: Credit Card Scams Tags: credit, credit report, fraud, identity, report, theft
Retailer Gets Hacked 4.2 Million Credit Cards Identity Theft Protection www.IDTheftSecurity.com
Credit card data theft effecting 4.2 million credit card holders happened at a major grocer and what you can do to protect yourself. www.IDTheftSecurity.com
Duration : 0:3:12
Categories: Credit Card Scams Tags: Breach, computer, crime, Data, HACK, hackers, id, identity, pc, phishing, scam, scammers, security, Spyware, theft, virus, viruses
Identity Theft Treatment | Lesson #8
ID Theft Treatment Lesson – VideoCreditScore.com offers free online video lessons and product reviews to consumers and credit counselors.
Duration : 4 min 16 sec
Categories: Credit Repair Scores Tags: identity
Card Scams, Frauds & 24 7 Protests for Months – All For the Same Cause – Part 3
**Innocent people’s and Tax payers Money for Terrorism **
British Citizens’ money being pumped to LTTE bloodshed?
News reports from UK says, a card clone scam allegedly carried out by the LTTE terrorists have hit thousands of British citizens who use a bank cards to buy petrol.
According to the reports millions of pounds have been robbed from the bank accounts of the British Citizens who had bought petrol from filling stations in Edinburgh, Norwich, Bury St Edmunds, Peterborough, Nottingham, Leeds, Bristol and Hull.
The reports further indicate that the clone cards have been fabricated using account details and the pin numbers stolen from the customers at the filling stations. It is believed that at least 200 filling stations have been hit by the scam.
Meanwhile, doubts are being raised on a possible LTTE link to the alleged scam. According to defence.lk sources, Sri Lankan asylum seekers are being forced to engage in criminal activities in the UK by the LTTE terrorists to raise funds for the outfit. Most of the hardcore LTTE terrorists living in the UK are known to carryout their fund raising activities in guise of charity and humanitarian organizations.
The LTTE is a ruthless terrorist outfit fighting for an ethnically pure homeland for the Tamils living in Sri Lanka. It launched its bloody terrorist campaign against Sri Lankan citizens in 1983, which has already claimed over 65000 lives so far. Operating on its extreme racist ideologies the LTTE terrorists have massacred tens of thousands innocent civilians in its ethnic cleansing raids at Sinhalese and Muslim villages. Further, the LTTE has been recruiting Tamil children as young as 12 years, to its baby brigade, and using them as “one-way” or “never to return” fighters at war. The freedom enjoyed by the LTTE terrorists in many a countries has allowed the LTTE to strengthen its activities around the world as well as to act on the behalf of other international terrorist organizations.
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