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July 21, 2003
Identity theft, offline
Identity theft, offline: John Leyden at The Register includes important debunking facts for ecommerce from a Garner Group report: "It takes issue with a common misconception about identity theft - that it's a Net crime perpetrated by anonymous, career criminals. 'Identity theft is not necessarily a high-tech crime, and can just as easily damage the credit reputations of low-tech adults who don't spend any time on the Internet... More than half of all identity theft - where the method of theft is documented - is committed by criminals that have established relationships with their victims, such as family members, roommates, neighbours, or co-workers.'" We're regularly told that buying online is dangerous, and yet most identity theft has nothing to do with the internet.
Posted by John Dowdell at July 21, 2003 02:48 PM
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