Identity Theft Still Mostly An Offline Scam
from the phishing-just-a-drop-in-the-bucket dept
A year ago we noted that, despite plenty of hype about online fraud and identity theft, it was a very small part of the problem. An updated version of the study notes that, not only are online scams a small part of overall identity theft, they may be decreasing. However, the study does claim that the average loss to online identity theft has gone up quite a bit in the last year. What's not clear from the article, though, is how this study was conducted. One of the problems with measuring identity theft is that the victims sometimes don't even realize what's happened for a while -- or how extensive the damage really is.
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uhhuh
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In other news ID theft is largely caused by...
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Big Boy
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BIG BOY!
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Every time you let a waiter and waitress take your card to a back room to process it, you are at risk!
Would you let a stranger use your computer after you logged into your online accounts?
And when is the last time the TV or newspaper press reported the real risks?
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Some 38 percent of identity theft victims said they hadn't bothered to notify anyone -- not the police, not their credit card company, not a credit bureau. Even when fraud losses purportedly exceeded $5,000, the kept-it-to-myself rate was 19 percent.
Perhaps some people decide that raising a stink over a wrongful charge isn't worth the trouble. Even so, the finding made the overall validity of the data seem questionable to Fred Cate, an Indiana University law professor who specializes in privacy and security issues.
"That's not identity theft," he said. "I'm just confident if you saw a charge that wasn't yours, you'd contact somebody."
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