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
Police Seek Credit Card Thieves
Sallisaw, Okla., seek two men who are accused of stealing another man’s credit cards and using them to buy items at several stores. They are pictured in this surveillance video buying cigarettes.
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Categories: Credit Card Interest Rates Tags: card, credit, oklahoma, sallisaw, stolen, surveillance, suspects, theft, used, video
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
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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
Card Theft
Thieves have discovered a potential new way to steal your debit and credit card information.
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Categories: Credit Card Scams Tags: CBC, credit card, debit card, identity theft, The National, theft, yt:crop=16:9
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
Parents allow their son to steal $13,000
http://www.trustwho.com – No joke. Kid takes parents credit card and charges $20,000 worth of game items. Parents chargeback all purchases they can. $13,000 worth even though it was their son that did this. What kind of message are the parents sending to their kids?
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Categories: Credit Card Rip Off Tags: account, allow, anti, Bank, card, Chargeback, CHILDREN, computer, credit, Dragon, ebay, Eikenberry, family, for, fraud, friendly, game, Goods, hoax, internet, Marcus, Markee, off, parents, Paypal, Responsibility, rip, scam, theft, thief, trade, trust, virtual, who, wow
