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Identity Theft Prevention - Part 1 By Nate Perrott
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| Sunday, January 25, 2009 |
Thieves have to open new accounts using the identity and then failed to pay off the debt, your credit will be damaged, and unfortunately the mechanism to improve the spotty damage.
Identity theft crime is the fastest growing in the United States, and the reason is simple: easy, and pay. I guess criminal figure, why through their lives with shocking identity only when they can steal other people to slightly more than the cost of pizza and beer? You can purchase a package online identity, complete with a SSN, about $ 40. Yes, it's just that easy.
From the FTC received 516,740 complaints in 2003, has 301,835 complaints about fraud, identity theft and a report is 214,905. Identity theft reports represented 42 percent of all complaints, up from 40 percent in 2002.
Of the 635,173 complaints received in 2004, 246,570 people reporting identity theft, and fraud complaints 388,603 people. For the fifth year in a row, identity theft topped the list of complaints, accounting for 39 percent of consumer fraud complaints filed with the agency. Internet-related complaints accounted for 53 percent of all fraud reports.
Loss or theft of Bank One and Citibank computer tapes in 2005 resulted in a compromise of millions of accounts and SSNs. This is just one example of the many ways that thieves can obtain data from the company.
In February 2005, ChoicePoint disclosed that thieves opened 50 accounts and receive data in the 145,000 private customers. Incidentally, ChoicePoint analyzing insurance claims information; it's a clearinghouse for personal data on hundreds of millions of people. Thieves fraud that is used to manage the account information provided access to databases, and operating for a year before found, defrauding some 750 people.
In April 2005, DSW Shoe Warehouse said that 1.4 million customers affected by a cyber break-in company databases. In the same month, the London-based Reed Elsevier (LexisNexis owner) announced that there may have been violations of LexisNexis and the criminal system that may have been accessed computer files containing the personal information of 310,000 people since January 2003.
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posted by neptunus @ 3:19 PM
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