Kimberly Lawlor
News article_Identity theft
I got
my article from the New York Times, written by James Warren, this article was
published February 5th. This article basically talks about how they
think people really need to start carrying cash because it is way safer now a
day’s then using a credit card. This article was about a man who was sentenced
to twelve years in prison for fencing high end stolen goods. It was a group of people;
the main guy was sentenced to 40 months, and the other 21 months. They stole
credit card numbers, lots of them. These men stole credit card numbers right
from big retailers such as Bloomingdales, Saks Fifth Avenue, and mostly they
would order merchandise from these cards and keep it for themselves. They would
steal clientele books from very high end stores which include things such as
the person’s name, address; clothing they liked, their birthday, and their
social security number were all in this book. They would get this information
and order thousands and thousands of dollars worth of merchandise. They would
put different destinations to have them to be delivered to, they were very
sneaky. But apparently not sneaky enough because they got caught. They used all
sorts of delivery methods they would sometimes pick it up from the store
itself, or they would steal it right off the porch of the delivery address which
was the victims own household, and claim that they were the recipient. After
that they would sell the stuff or go to the store and return it for cash. This
just shows that technology is not a safe thing anymore and that people need to
keep less credit cards and more cash. They also need to not as frequently order
things online because hackers can easily get their information. Fraud is
becoming a huge deal and people need to keep their identity and information as
safe as possible! This reminded me of last class where we listened to the man
on the phone with the women who knew all his information just from a system
data base, and how we talked about hackers and how it is becoming a huge threat
to the united states.
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