{"id":105770,"date":"2014-01-14T16:14:21","date_gmt":"2014-01-14T16:14:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/breaking-news\/identity-thieves-increasingly-target-tax-returns\/"},"modified":"2014-01-14T16:14:21","modified_gmt":"2014-01-14T16:14:21","slug":"identity-thieves-increasingly-target-tax-returns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/breaking-news\/identity-thieves-increasingly-target-tax-returns\/","title":{"rendered":"Identity Thieves Increasingly Target Tax Returns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- START CONTENT --><\/p>\n<p><strong>Herb Weisbaum<\/strong><br \/><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/id\/101332463\">CNBC<\/a><br \/>January 14, 2014<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Thieves usually just make up phony income numbers for the tax returns they file. Credit: 401(K) 2012 via Flickr<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>What&#8217;s worse than filing your taxes? Having an identity thief steal your return check.<\/p>\n<p>Identity theft is already a serious problem\u2013the No. 1 complaint to the Federal Trade Commission, and tax-related identity theft is a growing part of this crime spree. In 2010, about 15 percent of all identity theft complaints to the FTC dealt with tax returns. In 2013, that jumped to 43 percent.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt&#8217;s a lucrative crime and relatively easy to commit,\u201d said Adam Levin, chairman and founder of Identity Theft 911. \u201cAll you need is a Social Security number and some counterfeit documents. It&#8217;s much easier than selling drugs or stealing cars and a lot less risky for the bad guys.\u201d <\/p>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This article was posted: Tuesday, January 14, 2014  at  10:08 am<\/p>\n<hr>\n<hr>\n<p><!-- share and follow --><!-- end of share and follow --><\/p>\n<hr>\n<hr>\n<p>&lt;!&#8211; this is where we need to show the related articles  <\/p>\n<div class=\"related_articles_container\">\n<h3 class=\"sub_titles\">Related Articles<\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&#8211;&gt; <\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.infowars.com\/identity-thieves-increasingly-target-tax-returns\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Identity Thieves Increasingly Target Tax Returns\">Infowars<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Herb WeisbaumCNBCJanuary 14, 2014 Thieves usually just make up phony income numbers for the tax returns they file. Credit: 401(K) 2012 via Flickr What&#8217;s worse than filing your taxes? Having an identity thief steal your return check. Identity theft is already a serious problem\u2013the No. 1 complaint to the Federal Trade Commission, and tax-related identity [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1213,"featured_media":105771,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[487],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-105770","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-breaking-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105770","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1213"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105770"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105770\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/105771"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}