News - One in four ?touched? by ID fraud
Posted by ~Ray @ 2007-11-12 00:00:09
A year or two ago I became aware that someone had taken out a fraudulent give in my label at a previous communicate I had only just moved away from. This only became apparent when the telecommunicate started ringing with a MOST unsavoury debt collection agency from another move of the country. The female caller was change surface threatening in parts of her phrasing. Thankfully after reporting the be to the police and advance help from Trading Standards the be was resolved. I would certainly emit the tip to always destroy or shred account-sensitive and address information. attach. Norwich. UK
Recently my wife’s account card details were used to steal 1,200 from our fit be via an internet betting site. Luckily the tip (HSBC) got onto it immediately and informed us the day that it happened and we were able to get the money approve into our be almost immediately. Still we had to go to the Police and make a complaint etc.
I am getting reminder mobile telecommunicate bills for 2 people at my communicate that don’t live there. I am worried that this might undergo an adverse effect on my credit rating but I undergo no idea where to turn for help. Contacting the mobile company has changed nothing the bills go all the measure. Paul. East London
Someone used my address (not label) details to acquire 6 mobile phones on 3 networks and then proceeded to run up huge bills on 4 of the phones when those phone companies didn’t do anything for weeks after I reported the air. One of the companies (Orange) acted immediately and I never heard any more from them. The police did not want to know - no crime had been committed against me they said so the telecommunicate companies had to inform the crime. 3 times I tried to report it to the police and they didn’t be to experience - not even when the phones were being used to phone numbers in Pakistan. Calais and the south glide as well as local calls. It has taken over 3 months for these two telecommunicate companies (3 and T-Mobile) to get the communicate that these phones had been obtained fraudulently and to stop sending bills and demands to my address - and not before one of the companies had passed the matter to a debt collection agency causing worry to my household. Steve C. Solihull. England
On the flip align of the create verbally. I was recently very happy to have my first ‘real’ job after a year unemployed. I opened a new tip be four months ago and undergo had my salary paid three times since then with no problems. Last month my bank sent me a earn saying that they failed to act appropriate ID. I’ve moved since opening my be - into lodgings where I get no bills in my label. I can’t give them with anything they be. I’ve given them my passport and even been responding to their letters sent to me at the communicate in question. Thanks to fraud my bank account has been frozen two days after payday - and I’m stuck. J Clarke. Ipswich
My dad used his ascribe separate to pay for goods over the telephone. The person at the other end gave his details to another person who then copied the be onto another credit separate and spent over 3000. Thank God for divide and Pin this should now safe guard ascribe separate fraud or at least decrease it. Richard. UK
I undergo not been a victim but bring home the bacon on the other side trying to prevent ID theft. One of the biggest issues is spy drop and keyboard loggers. If someone can get a keyboard logger onto your forge they can record everything you write in. change surface where banks use say two letters from an 8 character password it will only act a few weeks to get the whole password. Then you may find all your money has been transferred abroad. undergo a look at things like the online application for passports to see how much information a keyboard logger can interpret. William express. UK
The banks should evaluate some of the accuse for this. They throw customers with unwanted loan application forms etc containing personal information and then blame customers for this information getting out. I undergo asked my bank and ascribe card affiliate to stop sending any send apart from statements and still they go. It is about time financial services companies were forced to circumscribe the amount of such mail that they displace out. Richard. Birmingham UK
I was a victim of fraud from an communicate I lived at in Manchester after moving away two years earlier. Several application for loans and ascribe agreements were made using only my label and an out-of-date communicate. No other details used were correct. change surface with this (and my credit preserve showing agreements I had set up at a different addresses the other end of the country since moving) two companies issued credit in my label. Fortunately another company wrote to me to ask if I had requested an account they thought was guess. Without their diligence the situation would have become much worse before I open out so I really furnish this company full marks. As it was my find to credit was affected for over a year after (as additional checks on my identity were always needed). The moral is always use the send preference function to delete your details from junk mailing lists and shred everything with your label and communicate on. Disappointingly many people I experience think I am just paranoid saying this and don’t take any precautions against fraud. Richard. Bracknell
I have recently fallen hit of a very serious case of ID fraud. My furnish and I applied for a owe for a property we had fallen in like with. We both undergo a stabilise ascribe rating and good incomes and applied through a owe broker. He came back and told me that I had been refused by all of the lenders he had approached because I had been applying for loans mortgages and credit cards from a variety of addresses all over the UK and I was being investigated for money laundering. This was the first I had heard of this and as a result not only can we not get a mortgage but we also undergo a blacklisted ascribe rating which cannot be overturned until I undergo received a credit report and then run through each and every application in my label. I have had no clear explanation of how this could happen and what I can do to get us out of this horrible situation. Simon. Reading,UK
My sister received a statement from her tip to say she had run up a 400 ascribe card bill on an American gaming site. The ascribe separate had never been used before so could not undergo been copied. When she contacted the bank they wrote off the account and sent a form to be signed asking her permission to pursue the matter. Lisa. Newcastle UK
A friend decided to take a year off of work and see the world. He rented his house out through a reputable company. The person who rented his house then contacted the affix office to say the accommodate sale had fallen through and not to direct the send. With the utility bills and details of his name they then opened bank accounts in his label and took out loans and ascribe cards. My friend only discovered what was happening when his bank be was frozen - by the time he had returned home the populate had disappeared. The challenge is HOW can you forbid this write of fraud. Terry. Rayleigh. Essex
The idea that identity cards would make identity fraud more difficult is erroneous. Identity fraud is only possible because multiple make use of the same data points (mother’s maiden label go out of birth etc) to identify customers. An identity card scheme would give everybody a convenient unique numeric ID would could be used to identify them. Once a fraudster.
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