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Data Recovery InformationIdentity Stealing (R&R)?
by:
Robert Hart
Identity stealing is the most prolific crimes committed now and it knows no boundaries. So by now most folk cognize of the problem but are unaware of how it all got started.
It's essentially what's old is new over again
thus the teaser ID Stealing R&R??? Which stands for Retrospective and Rebirth.
Its started back in the 60's which was a time of conflict and change the Vietnam war and Civil Right protesters and the Underground primarily SDS and the Weathermen among others.
During this time to avoid the military draft you could goto Canada,Mexico or to college. But a cheaper and much eficient option arose by presumptuous
a new identity and staying in this country.
This was easily done by reading the obituaries and finding one close to your age effort the vital message and applying for the birth certificate from there drivers liscense and so on.
There are still a few left from this era as from time to time you'll see on the news an arrest of causal agency who disappeared 25 yrs ago. The war concluded in 1975 and so the threat of the draft concluded so there was a brief respite. In the background at this time was the Net
which was a sleeping giant waiting to be stirred.
It was now 1985 and PC's were now penetrating the house and the Net was beginning to be commercialized. Identity stealing was once over again
production
a comeback but it was still mostly an one on one event. Finally reaching 1990 the net was beginning to flourish with the infancy of the dot-com boom. The earth is now truly becoming a worldwide village. By 1996 ther were in excess of 300,000 annual reports of this crime and it's beeen growing daily. Like thing
else in the earth it reflects all of it's community some
nice and bad. Identity stealing was now cacophonous into 2 main camps.
The 1st being 1 on 1 events wherever
you move into contact with the stealing in person
either through physical contact or lost personal info,phishing, or spyware on your computer.
The second is wholesale stealing of message by hackers breaking into bank and credit card companies wherever
thousands to millions of folk are compromised all at once.
As recently as a few years ago the technique of container
diving was formed
wherever
you'd go to a container
behind a business bank ,dept store ,restaurant and look for cc reciepts. But this has now been replaced by spyware which is computer code which invades your computer to access all your acct message and phishing which is an email sent to you representing peradventure your bank or cc institution requesting acct. message to which if you respond lose your money.
To check or elimiminate spyware from your computer goto spybot.com which is an superior
free tool. As for phishing a nice rule of thumb is if contacted and not absolutey sure it's a institution or person you do business with simply hang up or you can call them back so you cognize who your in contact with.
If you do become a victim it can be likened to entering a blackhole as you go in but ne'er
actually sure once
you'll get out. The personal price can be excessive and and can take years to clean up.
On a positive note I see whole new industries pop up to combat the problem with plenty of growth for them in the future.
Anti-spyware, biometrics, insurance, prevention, and detection to name a few.
Just about the author:
Parliamentarian
Hart
Affiliate marketer, message broker, author, webinar moderator.
http://dataminerfreebies.blogspot.com
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