The passengers were a target for identity thieves
“This is a department store, this is not a cottage industry more,” said Linda Foley, executive director of the Identity Theft Resource Center.
“There is organized crime identity theft rings in the world, the objective of American tourists, and they are looking for the man, distracted, led families, who are not attentive to their surroundings and people around them, “said Foley.” Do not seem so typical as tourists? ”
In 2001, the Federal Trade Commission (search) more than 220000 complaints of identity theft from the victim to its database. Last year, complaints rose to 380000, and makes American consumers lose more than $ 343 million in 2002 to the crime.
“I think we’re increasingly aware that it is probably the fastest growing consumer of the USA,” said Jim Vaules, a fraud consultant at Lexis Nexis, the identity of control products for businesses and governments.
So if the Americans to drive, fly, sail or train to their destinations summer, they should take some precautions to protect their identities.
In the first line, is not a social insurance card, Vaules said.”People carry their social insurance number on a piece of paper and Social Security numbers of their spouses or their children. Someone has access to them and, of course, they have not just one, but three or four points, “Vaules said.
Foley noted that the victims of their organization head details, what to do, if you have your wallet or Palm Pilot was stolen, is the most popular ID-theft guide on this site and shows the need for protection of personal belongings.
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