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part 2: Cloning you and Stealing your ID
Everyone's response to fears of being hacked, or to loosing one's identity has traditionally involved ditching everything. However, in the modern era of date theft, loss of identity means that your privacy is up for grabs and that someone else is spending your money, or setting you up for crime!!!?
In 2004. there were atleast 50,000 victims of identity theft in the UK and its incidence rising exponentially; by 2010 it was then estimated that 200,000 Britons will have their personal information stolen ad cloned.
The present figure exceeds all projection. !WOW! warns us and you that we all must workout the likelihood of becoming a data victim ourselves, but we all should also be interested to discover just how much info was held about each one of us 'Online' and how easy it was to access it.
But before I proceed onward let me give you some statistics for your own insights. !WOW! has used UK as a benchmark and also wishes to mention that local and regional stats, even from China, are murky and slate. The annual cost of ID fraud in the UK is over ₤2 billion . The number of people a year affected by ID fraud is over 1.4 hundred thousand. Over 100 the number of case of fraudulent documentation detected each month at Heathrow Airport. The Economists have worked out that the estimated value of your identity to an ID theft id over ₤ +100,000 . And the most interesting stats that over 39 % of Britons use their mother's maiden name as a security password.
Now remember that 'In the digital World, your identity is defined by four simple pieces of information; your name, address, date of birth and your mother's maiden name. Together they pretty much provide the key to your life interactions like getting credit, driving license, and even a passport for that matter. This selfsame info is what everyone asks for , whether you are applying for a mortgage, or hiring a car.
So believe me when I tell you that any students' personal info like this one can be found at around 1000 places online. You can conduct a small research on your own. Pick a name and track it, and you will find the amazing discoveries. Don't forget to search the electoral roll though via the commercial websites to which it has been sold.
Hint: www.192.com Hahaha!
And don't get shocked. Its a public record accessible to all but its also a values commodity for advertisers and identity harvesters, the collators of personal info who cultivate fake IDs before selling them on!!??
So, dear reader, stay close as we bring to you some fantastic advance research from !WOW!
Weird and frightening world.
Goodnight!
The Extraordinary Rendition!
Respectful dedication Author Jack Kerouac, Tom Ilube / former CIO, Internet Bank Egg, Scott Macneally/Sun Microsystems
Everyone's response to fears of being hacked, or to loosing one's identity has traditionally involved ditching everything. However, in the modern era of date theft, loss of identity means that your privacy is up for grabs and that someone else is spending your money, or setting you up for crime!!!?
In 2004. there were atleast 50,000 victims of identity theft in the UK and its incidence rising exponentially; by 2010 it was then estimated that 200,000 Britons will have their personal information stolen ad cloned.
The present figure exceeds all projection. !WOW! warns us and you that we all must workout the likelihood of becoming a data victim ourselves, but we all should also be interested to discover just how much info was held about each one of us 'Online' and how easy it was to access it.
But before I proceed onward let me give you some statistics for your own insights. !WOW! has used UK as a benchmark and also wishes to mention that local and regional stats, even from China, are murky and slate. The annual cost of ID fraud in the UK is over ₤2 billion . The number of people a year affected by ID fraud is over 1.4 hundred thousand. Over 100 the number of case of fraudulent documentation detected each month at Heathrow Airport. The Economists have worked out that the estimated value of your identity to an ID theft id over ₤ +100,000 . And the most interesting stats that over 39 % of Britons use their mother's maiden name as a security password.
Now remember that 'In the digital World, your identity is defined by four simple pieces of information; your name, address, date of birth and your mother's maiden name. Together they pretty much provide the key to your life interactions like getting credit, driving license, and even a passport for that matter. This selfsame info is what everyone asks for , whether you are applying for a mortgage, or hiring a car.
So believe me when I tell you that any students' personal info like this one can be found at around 1000 places online. You can conduct a small research on your own. Pick a name and track it, and you will find the amazing discoveries. Don't forget to search the electoral roll though via the commercial websites to which it has been sold.
Hint: www.192.com Hahaha!
And don't get shocked. Its a public record accessible to all but its also a values commodity for advertisers and identity harvesters, the collators of personal info who cultivate fake IDs before selling them on!!??
So, dear reader, stay close as we bring to you some fantastic advance research from !WOW!
Weird and frightening world.
Goodnight!
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