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Identity theft is raising topic in world crime diaries today. You will find many pages of crime diaries been written on identity theft. All countries departments are into searching for some very strict actions to take against those conducting such crimes. There have been many cases noted down on identity thefts. All over the world, many countries have started taking this crime very seriously. Past times did not observe so such of rise in this type of crimes. But changing technologies have introduced many such sophisticated criminals into this business.
Recent times have seen many scams on identity thefts and strict actions have also been taking against those found guilty of such crimes. Some countries have modified their justice books for introducing clauses for identity thefts while others have introduced new clauses for identity criminals. There are many such fields in which identity theft takes place. Let us see some identity theft prone areas.
Identity theft prone areas
One such is phishing mail. We often get mails saying that they are from our bank or credit card providers and they need our personal details for re verification process. We usually do not ignore such mails because they also have a clause that of you don’t reply in certain period of time, you may loose your service.
So naturally any one would reply to such mail and give all his personal details including name, address, telephone number and even account number. Such mails are usually fraud mails that are generated by identity thefts and they just want your personal details so that they can make money out of it. Another such story goes like this. One man got a text message on his mobile phone having advertisement of an exciting offer provided b their company.
It assured that they would give great ideas to pay off all your debts and also get free from mortgages within 10 years. He naturally called that number. They talked with him very politely and he was impressed seeing their service. He gave his details and then after some days he realised that he has been declared as criminal who has done mess with his credits with the bank and tried to take off all the debts and now he will fore go penalty of 2 million dollars! He was in total shock and did not realise what exactly had happened.
Some more stories
Another such story goes like a person was having transaction with his bank ATM card and some man was observing him entering his pin number. After some days, that card got stolen and he realised that at end of that day, he had lost his 40 thousand dollars from his bank account.
Another person had thrown a form having his personal details such as name, telephone number and his bank account number in trash can out side his house. After 3 days he found all money from his account was deducted and his account was closed. Many such stories go and hence you have to be very particular about disposing off your personal details also.
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