Thursday, October 25, 2007

ID thieves dodge jail time

If you're a convicted identity thief, you've got about <A HREF="http://www.techworld.com/security/news/index.cfm?RSS&NewsID=10419">a 50 percent chance of avoiding jail time.</A> That's one of the findings of a new study of closed US Secret Service case files, released by Utica College's Center for Identity Management and Information Protection. This is the first time researchers have been allowed to sift through the Secret Service's data. The study's authors based their findings on an analysis of 500 closed Secret Service cases.

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