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Released: February 28, 2010

Consumer’s quest shines light on ID theft

Source: Eileen Ambrose, Baltimore Sun (Free Registration)

Deborah Tewey unwillingly joined a large and fast-growing club: victims of identity fraud. The Baltimore County elementary school teacher discovered this when checking her bank account online before heading out on a shopping trip this month. The $700 she had in the account had been cleaned out.

At that point, Tewey began a two-week odyssey of alerting her card issuer, merchants and the police that a stranger had used her debit card. And what she found is that even though identity theft is now a well-known problem, some companies seem to take it more seriously than others.

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