Our Blog, May 2nd, 2008

Dead suffer Identity Theft

A genealogy site was used to steal the identity of over 100 dead people in the USA for 3 yeas undetected. Wired report that Tracy June Kirkland, 42, used Rootsweb.com to find names, Social Security numbers and the date of births of deceased people. She then “would randomly call various credit card companies to determine if the deceased individual had an … account,” according to the 15-count indictment (.pdf) filed in federal court in Los Angeles Tuesday.