Technology fueling new cases of fraud
Changing times have changed drawbacks, often supported by new technologies such as fax machines, scanners and computer ink-jet printer.
Several new methods of financial fraud are jumping, Sgt. Mike Shockley, commander of the Athens-Clarke County Police Department’s financial and White Collar Crime Unit, Sgt. John Gaissert, an inspector of the unit said Athens Banner-Herald.
“ If it seems too good to be true, it is likely,’’said Gaissert.
Nancy Canolty thought it was an administrative-up, if it received a letter in the mail late last year indicate their address has been changed. They have waited a week and a half before her husband went to the post office, just to the issue.
“ I do not have much in this respect. I was not a bit worried,’’said Canolty, a professor at the University of Georgia’s College of Family and Consumer Sciences.
But she learned that she could, if she discovered why and how his address has been changed. It was almost a victim of a new art form with the name of “ identity theft.”
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