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Article: Identity theft, credit card fraud concern U. Mississippi-area authorities
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- University Wire
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- September 3, 2002
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(Daily Mississippian) (U-WIRE) OXFORD, Miss. -- Within a 30-minute
span on a Wednesday afternoon, Oxford Police Department Investigator
Jimmy Williams fielded two calls reporting credit card fraud worth
almost $2,000 in town.
It was business as usual, Williams said, who responds to similar calls
at least once a day. During his five years of investigating, Williams
tracked credit card identity theft from Oxford, Miss., to Montreal,
Hawaii and Bangkok, Thailand. When the culprits go national or international,
they exhaust OPD resources and can only be rolled over to the FBI,
Williams said.
"We've worked cases that were $20,000 to $30,000," Williams said. ...