Police search for ID theft suspect

clipped from www.carrollcountytimes.com The Carroll County Sheriff’s Office is asking the public to help identify a suspect who used stolen credit/debit card information from a Carroll County resident to make unauthorized purchases at a Prince George’s County store. The female suspect bought more than $1,000 in merchandise from the Wal-Mart store in the 8700 block of Branch Avenue in Clinton March 2, according to a sheriff’s office release. The items included a flat-screen television, clothing and baby items. An investigation into the theft is ongoing. Anyone with information about the incident should call Deputy John Iannone at 410-386-2900 or the toll-free anonymous TIPS Hotline at 888-399-8477.

News Fake doctor impersonates GP and examines patient

clipped from www.healthcarerepublic.com Raj Patel, 33, was convicted last week by Basildon Crown Court, Essex, of attempting to obtain pecuniary advantage by deception by falsely representing a registered GP. Mr Patel, of North Circular Road, Barnet, north London, a recruitment consultant for a locum agency, used his knowledge of the industry to exploit security loopholes and steal the identity of a doctor with the same name practising in Ipswich - obtaining a GMC registration number. He then contacted a medical defence organisation, and after several phone calls, managed to convince it to send a copy of the real Dr Raj Patel's membership certificate to his address.

Indian trio jailed over major visa scam

clipped from www.google.com A court jailed an Indian man and two women Wednesday for providing fake degrees and identities to hundreds of immigrants, in what prosecutors said was the biggest visa scam ever seen in Britain. A judge sentenced Jatinder Kumar Sharma to seven years behind bars and Rakhi Shahi to eight years for orchestrating the fraud factory that allowed Indian and Pakistani nationals to study and work in Britain. Police suspect the business secured visas for almost 1,000 immigrants over two years, Isleworth Crown Court west of London heard, providing them with fake degree certificates, tax and wage receipts, bank statements and references.

Heaping deceit upon deceit

clipped from www.bclocalnews.com Standing in the hall outside courtroom number two, he could be a young lawyer. He looks healthy, well-fed, and is just beginning to show that 30-something heaviness to the cheeks. He checks his cell phone, punching on the keys as though he’s texting. He smoothes over his crisp dark suit and his red silk tie. It’s not until Bryan Michael Tickell walks into the courtroom that the cracks in his upwardly mobile demeanor begin to show. The 30 year old is accused of 14 charges involving forgery, breach of trust, theft and fraud covering a 10-month period where he worked for the Public Guardian and Trustee of B.C. (PGT) as a case manager of more than 200 clients. The PGT alleged after a forensic investigation with Deloitte & Touche that he had defrauded or attempted to defraud 12 of those people. In September 2008, Tickell pleaded guilty to three of those charges.

Duo held for selling fake degrees

clipped from www.expressbuzz.com Two persons who were preparing and circulating fake educational certificates of various universities were nabbed by the police. Ten fake educational certificates, 25 fake stamps and two mobile phones were seized from them. The duo were preparing fake degree educational certificates of BA and BCom courses of Dr B R Ambedkar Open University, Osmania University, Anna University and Intermediate certificates by scanning through computer and putting fake stamps with forged signatures. They would sell the same to the students for Rs 1,500 per certificate.

It's only fair that all medical grads take the same tests

clipped from www.chinapost.com.tw The scale of potential harm that a fake diploma could cause rises expeditiously with the level of technical skill required for a position. A 'fake' English teacher might deprive several dozen or even a hundred people of proper language instruction and while that would be unfortunate, it's hardly fatal. A 'fake' IT professional might cause the 'death' of numerous computer systems but again, real humans are not being physically harmed. A fake medical doctor, however, could cause the real deaths of real people and this is something society cannot tolerate.

Cameroon: When Certificates Are Cooked- Up, Not Earned!

clipped from www.lexpressplus.com The advent of computer technology has made it much easier for the forgery of these certificates, coupled with the fact that corruption is rife in this central African country. Cameroon recently emerged twice as the most corrupt country in the world, according to Transparency International, a Berlin –based good governance watchdog. Recently, the Cameroon government was the first to raise an alarm when in its effort to recruit ex-temporary workers on contract basis into the public service, the committee in charge realised that hundreds of certificates presented by the applicants were fake, cooked-up in the quarters. Just several weeks ago, more than 100 Cameroonian student-gendarmes (military police) were dismissed from the corps when certificate verification confirmed that, they used fake certificates at different levels to get recruited.