In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Iljitsch
van Beijnum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes
BTW, about identity theft: if someone takes out a bank loan in my name,
how is that my problem and not the bank's?
Because of the time it takes you to persuade other banks [1] that the
first bank's report that yo
On Tue, Feb 19, 2008, Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote:
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> On 19 feb 2008, at 7:27, Paul Ferguson wrote:
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> >According to the FTC, total consumer fraud losses totaled $1.2
> >billion, with the average monetary loss for an individual at
> >$349.
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> >Credit card fraud was the most common form of rep
On 19 feb 2008, at 7:27, Paul Ferguson wrote:
According to the FTC, total consumer fraud losses totaled $1.2
billion, with the average monetary loss for an individual at
$349.
Credit card fraud was the most common form of reported identity
theft at 23 percent,
In many countries in Europe,
Follow-up to fergdawg, the Georgia Tech/Google study made it on
the wires today (including the front section of our local Oregonian,
below is the Times of India version).
Congrats to NANOG and all the presenters for the network center
energy efficiency segment today. I'm not really active on the
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- -- "Steven M. Bellovin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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>> Credit card fraud was the most common form of reported identity
>> theft at 23 percent, followed by utilities fraud at 18 percent,
>> employment fraud at 14 percent, and bank fraud at 13 per
On Tue, 19 Feb 2008 06:27:52 GMT
"Paul Ferguson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> And thirdly is a figure that some folks may already be aware of; the
> fact that identity theft was the number one source of consumer
> fraud complaints submitted to the U.S. Federal Trade Commission
> in 2007.
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> Ac
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Apologies for the noise, but I'd like to go ahead and provide
references for a couple of data points which I plan to mention
tomorrow during my brief presentation -- they are not referenced in
my presentation slides, but they do highlight the issues I
