Alleged Identity Theft Scam Targets The Dead
An alleged Louisiana mother-son-daughter in law team has been charged in an identity theft scam involving the information of over 100 dead people, according to a report in The Times-Picayune.
The mother, an emergency room clerk at Slidell Memorial Hospital, allegedly sent her son text messages with the names, birth dates and Social Security numbers of hospital patients who had recently died or were near death so he could submit fraudulent credit card applications in their names as soon as they died, authorities said.
Robert Ezell and his mother, Rebecca Stockdale, both of Slidell, Louisiana, were booked with 124 counts of identity theft among a slew of other charges. Ezell's wife, Charlotte Cooper-Ezell, accused of filling out some of the fraudulent credit applications, was booked with 84 counts of identity theft.
For the whole story, see Identity theft targeted the dead (Three arrested; more than 100 names stolen) .
The mother, an emergency room clerk at Slidell Memorial Hospital, allegedly sent her son text messages with the names, birth dates and Social Security numbers of hospital patients who had recently died or were near death so he could submit fraudulent credit card applications in their names as soon as they died, authorities said.
Robert Ezell and his mother, Rebecca Stockdale, both of Slidell, Louisiana, were booked with 124 counts of identity theft among a slew of other charges. Ezell's wife, Charlotte Cooper-Ezell, accused of filling out some of the fraudulent credit applications, was booked with 84 counts of identity theft.
For the whole story, see Identity theft targeted the dead (Three arrested; more than 100 names stolen)
posted by Home Equity Theft Reporter at 10:14 AM
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