Is that a practical way to prevent identify theft? Almost any document can be forged and any user information be determined. How does one really prevent identity theft? Thanks, Sarad.
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Scientific American June 27, 2007 What else makes 20-somethings especially vulnerable to identity theft? The other thing is that they don't have a lot of prior credit records, and credit card companies are really anxious to give them credit cards. At the same time there is a lot of information about them on the internet since they're in that age group where they are used to creating web pages on Facebook and MySpace. A lot of the information also came from students routinely releasing their information by putting it in their risumis. Why would anybody put a social security number on his or her risumi? But they did. All of this simplified creating a fraudulent student credit card -- a name and address & a social security number, and date of birth. The challenge of Identity Angel was to find and combine this information from the internet . It mines information including resumes off the Internet and looks for ones that have the information, social security number, date of birth, etc. -- enough information to get a credit card in the person's name. What does Identity Angel do with that mined information? If it succeeds, the software then tries to find an email address and send [the victim] an email letting them know we found this information. ____________________________________________________________________________________Ready for the edge of your seat? Check out tonight's top picks on Yahoo! TV. http://tv.yahoo.com/