Category Archives: Criminal Defense
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Steps to Take After Identity Theft
Place a fraud alert with all the major credit report companies. An initial fraud alert is valid for 90 days, so you need to renew it as soon as it expires. Order credit reports. Create an Identity Theft Report: a. Write out all the details…
Common Scams That Trick Consumers
It’s blatantly obvious that our economy is not in the best of shapes; people lose their jobs but the bills just keep piling up. At one point or another, the internet goes out altogether and you find yourself burrowed in public wifi locations in dire…
How to Spot A Liar: Crime in Grammar, Part 2
When we communicate either orally or in script, words are sewn together to form sentences, which provide the reader and listener with an external version of our inner speech. Depending on the speaker’s tone and writer’s word choice, each sentence is imbued with different meaning,…
How to Spot A Liar: Crime in Grammar, Part 1
Emerson once said, “Words are also actions, and actions are a kind of words.” The two are interchangeable in the world of fraud. You speak and write for a purpose and that purpose is then hinted to the listener or reader through your word choice.…
Sleeping With the Enemy: When Friends Become Foes
How do you know that the person you socialize with, work with, or even date or marry, is actually the person that they say they are? By law, when someone dies, their social security number is part of the public domain because no one can…
How to Protect Yourself Against Identity Theft
Don’t carry all your credit cards and IDs in your wallet. If you rent a car, either remove or destroy the rental agreement after you return the car. When you travel, make sure you secure the mail that you are receiving at your home or…
How to Catch A Forger, Part 2
Most of us think a crime scene needs a dead body, detectives and Special Task Forces that interrogate everyone. We assume that to solve a case, you’ll need forensics, DNA samples, weapon analysis, etc.–the list goes on. However, to catch a criminal, you need to…
How to Catch A Forger, Part 1
We all recall the biographical crime drama film Catch Me If You Can (2002), starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Tom Hanks, which depicted the life of Frank Abagnale, an expert in check fraud. The conclusion of the film presented us with a twist in the traditional…
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