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Rochester, N.Y.) - New charges could be filed later this week against a man who set up hidden cameras in the women's restroom where he worked in Newark.Jeffrey Kriner was arrested after his landlord discovered boxes of video tapes in the basement.Surveillance Devices In the hands of investigators, small surveillance devices help catch drug dealers, thieves, and vandals. These tiny cameras are easily available to anyone on the Internet. The tiny camera, smaller than a quarter, is linked to a wireless transmitter. The lens opening is the size of a pencil point. A private investigator “John" said, “You could hide it behind just about anything."We conceal John's real identity because he's working undercover. He said 99 of mini-cams are used for theft prevention."Trying to watch the nanny or cleaning lady. No one comes and says they're going to hook up a camera in a shower," he said.There is also a device you can use to find a mini cam.
Ex-con:ID theft can be prevented
Sparks resident Angela Cady knows firsthand the harm identity theft causes. "Identity theft is like murder. You're murdering that person's identity -- everything that they are on paper," she said. "It's really sad what it can do to people, how long it takes them to get their life straight again." More than 11.8 million Americans have been affected by identity theft since April 2004, according to the Sparks Police Department, which is holding a free identity theft prevention course Wednesday night. Information also will be provided on the appropriate steps for victims of ID theft to take. Cady isn't a victim. She spent six years in prison for stealing someone's identity and, having learned from her experience, shared her story to help others protect themselves.
Use free reports to monitor, clean up your credit
CREDIT REPORTS show the good, the bad and the ugly in your financial life. They also provide the basis for calculating your credit score, which among other things is used to determine what interest rate you pay on a loan or whether you even get a loan in the first place. That's why it's so important for consumers to obtain a free credit report once a year from each of the country's three major credit reporting bureaus: Equifax, Experian and TransUnion. Passage of a federal law in 2003 made this possible. Going over your credit report helps you find out not only if there are mistakes that could lower your credit score, but also whether you are an identity-theft victim. Sandra Chapin, program director at the San Mateo-based Consumer Federation of California, ordered her credit reports a few weeks ago.
Local banks host shred-a-thons to prevent identity theft
Local banks are stepping up their efforts to raise the public's awareness about how to prevent identity theft by shredding old documents.
Commerce National Bank & Trust in Winter Park said it is holding a free "shred-a-thon" today from 10 a.m. until 1 p.m. at its offices at 1201 S. Orlando Ave., Suite 100.
Another local bank, RBC Centura's Central Florida operation, is conducting an identity theft prevention "shred-a-thon" on Monday at its downtown Orlando branch, the bank said today.
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BEAU TIE FOR SEXY 'GRIFT' GAL
Alleged identity-theft tart Jocelyn Kirsch's cheating extended into the bedroom, her former ex-boyfriend and best friend say. The 22-year-old busty brunette, who Philadelphia police say fleeced her neighbors to finance a jet-set lifestyle, even two-timed her alleged accomplice in the phony credit-card scheme, according to friends and the boyfriend she cheated on him with. In 2006, Kirsch met her soon-to-be alleged cohort: then-23-year-old Edward Anderton, a cocky 2005 graduate of the University of Pennsylvania who talked big and loved to show off his swimmer's physique. She started dating him at the same time she was already seeing a fellow Drexel University junior, a music major from Saratoga County. "Eddie was hotter. She liked how confident he was. [Her existing boyfriend] was shy and quiet.
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