Within a few hours of Sunday's Reading Eagle landing on customers' doorsteps, three suspects in a Bern Township burglary and credit card fraud case were identified by their parents from surveillance photos featured in the Crime Alert Berks County's "Crime of the Week" article, investigators said Tuesday.

The federal government has swooped down on 105 people in 23 states in the past week as part of a nationwide crackdown on identity theft and tax refund fraud that was timed to warn cheats to beware this tax season, the Internal Revenue Service said Tuesday.

It took several months for one physician to learn that she was a victim of medical identity theft. This realization occurred after patients reported that her name was on their Medicare Summary Notices although they had never seen her.

MOSCOW — The universal electronic card demonstrated by President Dmitry Medvedev in the spring of last year is facing delays, with the rollout that was scheduled for this January being pushed to January of 2013.

The Internal Revenue Service and the Department of Justice teamed up for a coast-to-coast crackdown on identity thieves this week.

  FARGO, N.D. (AP) — A Fargo man is accused of stealing the identity of his 10-year-old son to pass bad checks and impersonating a Hooters restaurant manager to avoid the bill for a weeklong hotel stay in Bismarck.

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The use of stolen identities to fraudulently file for tax refunds, generally involving stolen Social Security numbers, is a growing problem

Police need help finding two suspects accused of defrauding senior citizens in a home repair scam. Police said the two men went to several Smyrna homes posing as contractors, roofers and/or gutter installers.

Here's another reason to guard your identity with your life. Prosecutors claim Susan Pemberton and her 22-year old niece, Cynthia Sibert, lured victims from 30 states by asking for personal and financial information in ads offering jobs and new apartments.