Experts Make Top 10 Identity Theft Predictions for 2010
A team of experts has come up with a “Top 10” list of identity theft predictions for 2010, and the immediate future does not look any brighter for victims of the crime.
According to a press release, the Identity Theft Resource Center (ITRC) – a non-profit establishment established to support identity theft victims and broaden public awareness of the crime of identity theft – and nationally recognized identity theft expert Robert Siciliano have teamed up to make a Top 10 list of identity theft predictions for 2010 and beyond.
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The recession will lead to extra identity theft scams, in view of the fact that identity thieves always find a way to use hard economic times to their advantage.
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Identity thieves will pocket advantage of high unemployment tariff by tricking jobseekers with fake job listings and work-at-home scams.
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The number of individuals with no criminal history who will start to explore the crime of identity theft for fiscal gain will increase.
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Child identity theft and identity theft cases perpetrated by people close to the victim – such as friends, roommates, and fellow staff – will increase in tough economic times.
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Medical identity theft will rise as high unemployment and high medical insurance expenditure cause uninsured people to use the coverage of friends, relatives, or strangers to get medical care.
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Insider identity theft will increase due to the failure to secure workplaces to prevent identity thieves from gaining access to private in rank contained in databases or paper records.
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Individuals will reduction victim to Governmental identity theft after they apply for regime help and benefits using their own Social Security Numbers (SSNs), leading to complications with regime institutions.
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Criminal identity theft – when one individual uses another’s private in rank to avoid having a criminal record – will grow, leading to loss of employment and benefits, and to arrests of identity theft victims.
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Social media identity theft will increase, allowing identity thieves hack social media accounts with “phishing” to make infected links or fake pages to steal private in rank from users and their “friends.”
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Over the next two years, identity theft crimes – and the number of victims – will increase unless changes are made in in rank security, especially to the current system of identification that has few safeguards to protect consumers.
While these predictions show how identity theft could get even of poorer quality, the crime is already a problem for millions of people. According to Javelin Approach & Research, identity theft and fraud increased 22 percent in 2008, affecting nearly ten million Americans. And those numbers are expected to get of poorer quality before they get better.
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