Archive for April, 2011

Identity Theft Case Study

Saturday, April 30th, 2011

Identity Theft Case Study #1 When Vikki, a 29 year old bank worker from the UK,  had her handbag stolen last July, she knew she was in trouble. She was moving home and her passport and key personal documents were in the stolen bag. “I cancelled everything that day, including my passport and reported the [...]

What Is Identity Theft?

Friday, April 29th, 2011

Identity theft is a crime where a criminal assumes someone else’s identity in order to profit by fraudulent means. Identity theft is the fastest growing type of fraud in the USA, the UK and many other developed countries. Identity Theft Defined Identity theft – also know as identity fraud, ID theft and ID fraud – [...]