Free Oprah Winfrey Show tickets is the lastest scam to steal the identities of consumers accoriding to Illinois's Attorney General Lisa Madigan.

The thieves have been sending phishing e-mails asking for personal information, verify financial information or wire money to a third party for tickets to the show, Madigan said.

"With the large number of Oprah's fans worldwide, we are concerned that their excitement at the opportunity to attend a taping of her TV show may result in fans responding to this unauthorized offer," Madigan added.

Byron Hollis, national anti-fraud director of the Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association, explains that the rising number of medical-identity theft reports is an industrywide problem. Although medical-identity theft often goes undetected, the World Privacy Forum estimates that potentially 3.25 million people are victims.

If you have ever found an error after you had approved a proof for printing then you can feel a bit better today. With only one month left in the year; I think it is safe to award the biggest printing error of 2006 to All Printing & Graphics in Broadview, IL.

All Printing & Graphics, said yesterday that it mistakenly mailed a list of names, Social Security numbers and home addresses of nearly 1,740 former school employees as part of a packet of health-insurance information it was contracted to print for the Chicago Public Schools.