Mail & Identity Theft

Medication taken in suspected mail theft Rome News-Tribune – 6/19/10 (WEST ROME, GEORGIA) “West Rome residents told police medication was likely stolen from their mailbox. According to Rome police reports: The medications ordered through mail were supposed to arrive by June 3, but by the middle of the month it had not arrived at the…

Police Chase Down Suspected Mail Thieves; Two Arrested San Diego 6 – 6/24/10 (SAN DIEGO, CALIFORNIA) “A man and woman wanted on suspicion of stealing mail on several prior occasions led police on a brief road chase through Carmel Valley Thursday before getting into a crash and making a failed attempt to escape on foot.…

Hi there, blog followers. Sorry this “Monday” post is so late in coming. But what is an apology without excuses? First excuse? Well, of course Monday was a holiday here at Epoch so we abandoned our computers for cookouts! Second excuse? There are so many dang mail theft stories… really juicy ones… all across the…

Juvenile Arrested In East Hartford Mail Thefts The Hartford Courant – 7/8/10 (EAST HARTFORD, CONNECTICUT) “Police arrested a juvenile male in an ongoing investigation into a rash of mail thefts in town. About six residents have had mail stolen, East Hartford Police Officer Hugo Benettieri said. The thefts were near Burnham Street in the north…

Mail theft in Maple Leaf The Maple Leafer – 7/15/10 (SEATTLE, WASHINGTON) “Anyone else in Maple Leaf having a problem with mail theft? I remember at a Maple Leaf Community Council meeting earlier this year, this issue was brought up — but I thought I had heard they caught the main culprit. Either they didn’t,…

Mailbox tampering hits Hunts Point Bellevue Reporter – 7/23/10 (BELLEVUE, WASHINGTON) “A total of 10 mailboxes were pried open by an unknown person(s) in the 4200 block and north of Hunts Point Road in July. Although the boxes were tampered with, there have been no reports of anything taken. The tampering occurred between 10 p.m.…

Thief Stealing Mail, Identities in Chesterfield FOX 2 – 10/1/10 (CHESTERFIELD, MISSOURI) Crimestoppers: Credit Card Theft KFSM 5 – 9/30/10 (FORT SMITH, ARKANSAS) “Fort Smith police are looking for this man accused of stealing a credit card. On September 7, 2010, a Fort Smith resident reported a credit card mailed to him from a banking…

Stolen mail leads to identity theft across the nation. In June, Washington and Georgia seemed to be hit by mail thieves particularly hard, and of course California (per norm) as well. Other areas like South Carolina and parts of the MidWest are seeing rashes of mail theft as well.

If you learn one thing from our monthly round-up of mail-identity theft news stories nationwide, it should be this: Don’t trust your mailbox! Stealing mail is one of the easiest and most common ways thieves obtain your sensitive information for identity theft. Most people don’t even realize when their mail has been stolen, because savvy…