This news can't help the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel's efforts to increase its subscribers.
From TMJ4:
Tominka Vaughn admitted that she collected credit card and bank account numbers from Journal Sentinel subscribers to steal their identities.
...The victims were customers of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. That’s where a temporary agency assigned Vaughn to do customer service work, according to the paper’s parent company, Journal Communications – the same company that owns TODAY’S TMJ4.
Court records show Vaughn spent less than three months at the Journal Sentinel, and when she left, she took victims’ names and information with her…and then went shopping.
According to federal court records, Vaughn admitted she had a laptop computer and other electronics shipped to her apartment at 30th and Wisconsin.
She also admits she tried to buy about $1,300 worth of athletic shoes, cell phone services and about $7,400 worth of audio equipment.
Sometimes, an employer has no reason to believe an employee might violate customers and commit crimes like these.
Had a proper background check been done, perhaps this case of identity theft could have been avoided.
...Journal Communications’ general counsel, Mary Hill Leahy released a statement, saying they’re “pleased the authorities pursued this matter.”
Leahy declined to name the temp agency, but she did say the company thought that the agency did background checks on employees.
Vaughn had a previous federal conviction for fraud in 2004.
Clearly, Journal Communications should take more care in hiring.
Hiring someone with a previous federal conviction for fraud to have access to credit card and bank account numbers from Journal Sentinel subscribers is taking an enormous risk.
Subscribers beware.
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