Identitth theft-Privacy Isn't Dead, or At Least It Shouldn't Be

[Sarad AV]

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.


       
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