Creditnet News Story
Former credit union employee arrested for stealing customer's identity
Wednesday, July 28, 2010
By Thomas Astery
Sometimes, even the employees of the banks or credit unions consumers visit every day can't be trusted with the personal information they handle.
According to a report from the Arizona Republic in Phoenix, a former employee of the Arizona Federal Credit Union in Mesa was recently arrested for using a customer's information to apply for credit cards. The victim first knew something was amiss when she got a phone call thanking her for applying for a card online, though she never did.
After some detective work, she found that a credit union employee who had helped her refinance her home used her name, date of birth and Social Security number to obtain cards from Bank of America and Capital One. She quickly alerted police and the credit union to the problem, the paper said.
This is just the latest in a number of thefts by people consumers trust with their personal identity information, and it's not just a localized crisis. Several tax preparers all across the country have been arrested for or convicted of identity theft in recent weeks.
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