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Califchief - 09 Dec 2007 07:00 GMT

Guess it could happen anywhere....................

Police: Couple Stole Patient Info For Shopping Sprees
ATLANTA, GEORGIA
18:52 EST December 7, 2007

Police are looking for hundreds of people who may be victims of identity
theft.

A local couple allegedly used their private information for a shopping
spree.

Sheriff's investigators said the couple stole information from local doctor
offices and even a funeral home where they worked then used it to open
credit card accounts.

Investigators believe Jan Maxwell Gaston simply took boxes of medical
records home and soon the trouble began.

Gaston is now being held in jail charged with multiple counts of financial
identity fraud for allegedly using information on medical records to open
accounts and go on shopping sprees.

All were patients at the OB/GYN of Atlanta East Cobb

Investigators also arrested Jan Gaston's husband, Alton Glen Gaston, after
finding at least one case where a deceased individual's identification was
used to open an account. Information that apparently came from the Mayes
Ward-Dobbins Funeral Home where Alton Gaston had worked for 20 years.

But his attorney said 2 he believes it was all the work of the wife. "When
the evidence comes out, and I would respectfully ask people to wait until
they hear the evidence, that Mr. Gaston will have no involvement in it and
in fact, will have very limited knowledge of anything that was ordered or
done by anyone else," said attorney Vic Reynolds.

The investigation is far from over. Jan Gaston had worked in at least four
medical offices in recent months. At least two of those offices sent
warning letters to patients - which will be too late for some who will spend
the holidays cleaning up their credit.

... It's a small world, but I wouldn't want to paint it.
___ Blue Wave/QWK v2.12

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Weatherlawyer - 09 Dec 2007 14:12 GMT

> Guess it could happen anywhere....................
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> ... It's a small world, but I wouldn't want to paint it.
> ___ Blue Wave/QWK v2.12

I wonder if she has ever worked for the British Government. There is
something extraordinarily similar in her MO to that of HMG's standard
office procedure.

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Nell - 12 Dec 2007 16:17 GMT

> Guess it could happen anywhere....................
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> the holidays cleaning up their credit.

I don't know when or where or how but there's a woman with the same name as
mine (even the same middle initial though I don't know what her's stands
for) who's been dogging my heels for over 25 years.

I had trouble getting gas turned on in St. Joseph, MO because had defaulted
on her utilities in Kansas City, MO (serviced by the same gas company).
That's when I found out about the middle initial. It got turned on when I
proved I wasn't her.

I moved to New Jersey. Signed up for a Senior/Disabled apartment. The
manager said that I'd trashed an apartment in Georgia. I told her I"d never
been to Georgia. She checked with the landlord in Georgia. His description
didn't fit me. She checked with my former landlord in Missouri. I was me.
Most recently, and the hardest to straighten out, is Bank of America having
a collection agency contacting me about a matter of about $1500 owed to B of
A. It isn't me, it's her and now I don't know how my address and phone
number got tied in with it. I get called (or I call) and they ask for the
last for digits of my "Social" which are different from hers, tell me
they'll update their records, and then contact me again a few months later
and we go through the same rigamarole. I've never had an account at B of A
and now I wouldn't want to try.

Nell

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Plantmistress - 13 Dec 2007 23:35 GMT

> I don't know when or where or how but there's a woman with the same name as
> mine (even the same middle initial though I don't know what her's stands
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Nell,

We had the same problem with someone who had the same name as my
husband (different middle initial, if I remember correctly). The last
time we were contacted, we told them that they had the wrong person.
We also told them that if they didn't correct their records & called
us again, we would sue them for harassment. We haven't heard from
them again. Maybe it would work for you & BoA.

Shannon

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