Tuesday, September 08, 2009

Mobile Phone Identity Theft

Mobile Phone Identity Theft
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With a title like that you could be forgiven if you thought that someone had taken your mobile phone, stolen the name off it and just chucked the hardware back at you. Not interested in the phone, only want the name. Oh yes, call me Nokia N70 from now on.
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The latest scare of Mobile Phone ID Theft as reported by Matt Cole Newsbeat Report for BBC online service Newsbeat can be found here:
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Crimes like these create scepticism because the logistics encumbent upon the perpetrators to ensure that the enterprise of this crime succeeds are so long winded, bearing in mind that the mobile phone isn't being stolen, just a filing cabinet of personal information collated from various sources; and for what, so someone can run up a mobile phone bill. A solution to this part of the Identity Theft conundrum is to get a prepaid mobile phone and stick £5.00 on it. Now the matter is no longer ID theft, but call theft - £5 worth.
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As for obtaining the filing cabinet of personal information about you? The only easier way that the perpetrators could speed up that process is if they were getting hold of information obtained from others who are themselves engaged in the business of selling and trading in people's personal details.

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