Internet creates a chain of ID theft victims
Tuesday, August 19th, 2008Last year, Chris Hansen, from Dateline’s “To Catch a Predator” series, went underground with an identity theft investigator to get a look at the role the internet plays in identity theft.
What they discovered goes way beyond the common phishing scams.
To gain the inside track, they started with some “stolen” credit cards of their own, by having a cooperative bank issue fake credit cards with $1,000 limits. Then they offered the information from those cards, along with manufactured identities, to users of an online chat room known to cater to identity thieves. (more…)
