Identity Theft

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I just had to eat 100 dollar order because the person who ordered from my company was a victim of identity theft.

Hi lockergnome,
Well done on this and other tutorials you have made. Awesome.

who the fuck is this bitch i want to kick his fucking ass

what’s wrong with it??

These files can be undeleted dude, the OS marks it as free space to overwrite, but you can recover them

Unfortunatly, it will not permanently delete the data. The facts is that the files is not sent to the Recycle Bin. However, the files are still present on the hard drive and can be recover by programs such as Recover My Files.

I agree with chris. When on a public computer just surf the internet and never do you banking or check your email. You don’t what ppl might have downloaded or installed. Also when you delete stuff and clear it from the recycle bin, its still in the hard drive

not safe.

These are really awesome tips and very important things to keep in mind.

I have *always* signed the back of my debit card with ‘See ID’ instead of my name. I also always keep my card information hidden inside my palm as much as possible while I’m handing it to a cashier or swiping it in the card machines.

As far as online shopping goes, I suggest using a gift card or one of those cards you can reload that you can get from your bank. That way, if the information is taken, you won’t lose anything straight out of your bank or credit card. It’s not totally foolproof but it does help quite a bit.

I love the top 5 lists, I’ve learned so many things from them. Thank you for doing them and thank you to those who send in the lists.

True, be careful ppl or you WILL be sorry if you aren’t, there is many bad ppl out there, i even burn my papers after i shred them, you never know.
there is a really good show from UK called “The real hustle” they show tricks that hustlers use to con ppl so that the rest of us can protect ourself s.
They have a saying: If something seem too good to be true, it probably is.

A note about credit cards: not signing the back is fairly foolish and not that effective. If someone picks up your credit card, they could just sign it themselves and their signature would be a spot on match when signing a receipt. The reason why it is not that effective is that it is against the merchant agreement to require ID. Most retails are moving against that as some have received warnings against it…

Point 3 is the most unintelligent comment I’ve ever heard…what’s there to stop whoever steals your card from putting their own signature on the back and using that?

Hi Chris, thanks for your video, keep up the good work!

I have once had a scare with identity theft a few years ago when I was 19 someone broke into my car and stole all my cd’s, radio and all the information I kept in my glove box. The amount of information in their was enouph to steal my identity, like bank statements, credit card statements, and their was a piece of paper with my social security number on. Wow bad for me having all this stuff in their. Well what I did was i contacted my back and had a new account made, I called my credit card company and canceled my card. Lucky the police found all of the paper work I had on the side of the street an older found it and called the police. I cant thank that lady enouph for finding that stuff.

People be careful on what you keep on your persons and in your car because it could happen to you.

It’s insane how many people are out there to get your information. And if you’re not careful, it can be a nasty ordeal. Good information….

Yes, it is amazing how people can steal your banking information etc. My cousin got his stolen and had to go through a lot of steps to get his new personal information back it was tragic for him. I also told him to get a better virus scanner and be careful on what websites you go on.

What Jason said. If they check at all, which they should always, they’d compare the card’s signature with whoever is trying to steal your identity. Of course, if they don’t bother to check then the point is moot. I find about half check and half don’t.

If any or your cards have been stolen or used to buy things you didn’t order, no matter how small the amount and what the credit card tells you, demand the credit card company cancel the compromised cards immediately and issue you a new card and account numbers.

If you’re really paranoid about ID theft, have been a victim of it (a reason to be paranoid), or you just want to be extra safe, consider having a ‘credit freeze’ or ’security freeze’ (same thing, different names) placed on your credit profiles with the major three bureaus. You won’t get quick credit and will have to ‘unfreeze’ them temporarily for credit or job applications, but it’s one of the best ways to prevent and stop an ID thief from ruining your good credit.

Some online banks offer you the ability to log-in and instantly generate an account number that you can use to buy stuff online, just like with your real cc. They will allow you to set a certain limit on the cc amount, and even set your own expiration date. It is still tied to bank’s regular credit card and operates the same way, but a thief who stole this data from a merchant’s server would only see your temporary generated credit number and not your actual credit card number.

great tips there. the thing that I like about my debit card is that it has a picture of me on it so only I can use it so that would be a good idea to have on all of them but some companies might not do it. Also, people should check there credit report to see if something might of slip by because someone stole there identity.

Good advice also those preapproved credit cards you get in the mail has a phone # on them you can call and opt out of there mailing list.

you can still recover the files /folders

the best you can do is overwrite the deleted files with as much random stuff as possible but even then its still possible to get some text or the filename. also shredding files securely on your computer above dod level is illegal (ie gutman) although no-one can tell

In mac os x there is an erase feature in Disk Utility that allows you to do a 7 time pass erase like Darik’s Boot and Nuke. It also allows you to do a ridiculous 35 time pass erase as well which i’ve never seen before

weard?

The only sharing in this house is on the main computer. I won’t share files on my computer.

As for not signing the back of the card, not everyone checks the back of the card. What’s worse, you can sign it in front of them AND they will accept it.

Someone in chat said WEP your network. WEP is the EASIEST thing to crack in the world. Not sure if they knew what they were talking about.

Weird?

try Brute, 16 Uppercase, Lowercase, Numbers and Symbols. Will take you several million years.

Someone who isn’t me makes at least 20K a week, from phishing internet banking accounts from naive people; by the sounds of things, these people remind me just like the people posting here, or their parents.

The police don’t have the resources to keep up with the epidemic. There’s thousands of people out there just like this guy, who isn’t me.
It’s an industry. The hackers hide behind VPNs and infected ‘zombie’ computers, anyone can be a zombie, it’s just a Port-Redirect or Socks proxy opened up on your infected computer. You can chain proxies too ( make it go thru multiple – bouncing – hosts )
In this industry business is conducted online, and people are just getting better and better at this.

There is no such thing as security.

Security is nothing more then a feeling of being safe, it’s an evolved (result?) human emotion, stemming from social conditioning (imho).

Anyone who operates a computer and wants to be safe from ‘ID theft’, remember this:

THE WEAKNESS IS ALWAYS THE USER
THE WEAKNESS IS ALWAYS THE USER

Suspect everything. Build a network of trusted people/companies to do business with and do business with them only. Take advantage of the fact you are covered by banks ( in most countries ) with Zero Liability for fraudelent charges, if you’re credit card data has been compromised and somebody else has used it.

People should know also identity theft is the use of someones personal ( name, date of birth, ‘SSN’ or Drivers License number ) details, to defraud them or companies of money, goods or services.

However, if someone just obtains your credit card number or internet banking login it’s usually called ‘Access Device Fraud’, read the law.

Fraud is a very diverse crime/field of work.

This is really good advice and I use this all the time thanks to you!

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