ID Thieves

[yorkshiregoth]

Just got back from work, and whilst carrying my bike upstairs I spotted a couple of blokes grabbing random bin bags from various piles placed outside the flats awaiting collection in the morning. I phoned the local constabulary who said they would have a drive around the area and see if they spot the miscreants. I can only assume that they are after peoples details.

 

[Aperitif]

They were probably Camden Council rubbish spies on a field trip studying Level 3 Analysis...
Bin there - done tat.

 

[Maz]

I must admit, I never chuck away papers with my address on when I leave the bags out!

 

[Flying_Monkey]

It's more likely you will get your ID stolen by people working for supposedly legitimate companies than by thieves or computer hackers. According to research done by AmEx, 75% of ID crime are inside jobs.

 

[User169]

It wasn't Benjamin Pell was it?

I used to see him now and again when I worked in Gray's Inn - completely hat stand.

 

[PaulB]

I must admit, I never chuck away papers with my address on when I leave the bags out!

Don't worry, I know your name and address and throw loads off stuff out with it on. You don't want to miss out after all!

 

[gbb]

It's more likely you will get your ID stolen by people working for supposedly legitimate companies than by thieves or computer hackers. According to research done by AmEx, 75% of ID crime are inside jobs.

That concurs with my experience.
Made an debit card purchace over the phone last year. Goods arrived, no problem. About 2 weeks later, SWMBO noticed a £200+ transaction on the bank, queried it, and someone had brought perfumes online with our card details.
The funny thing is, we could narrow it down to the EXACT place it had been done because of a slight difference in personal details she'd given.
The unfunny thing was the bank were'nt interested in that...no sir.

Wife said, 'its my money, and ive a right to expect you to take it seriously and follow it up'
The reply was..'no madam...its our money, and confidentiality doesnt allow us to divulge what we do or what we find' (or words to that effect). You'll have to trust we take it seriously and follow it up. Not even remotely interested in the fact we could narrow it down to almost the person on the end of the phone.

Talking to a friend who works with over the phone purchaces...she said it ALL relys on trust. You could take anyones details if you wanted to, she said.

 

[Eat MY Dust]

I found a card scanner on a bank in Ealing. It was very convincing. Ufortunately I also found the wan*ers who stuck it on, who grabbed it off of me and then chased me down the road when they saw me calling the cops. The police weren't very interested!

 

[nilling]

After years of carefully shredding anything that had my ID the Govt then 'lost' those disks - cheers!

 

[buggi]

ha ha i'd love em to pick up my rubbish bags. they'd have ferrit poo all over 'em

 

[Night Train]

Anything with my ID on gets burnt in the fire. I still worry though.

 

[punkypossum]

I keep shreeding everything with my name and address on it, but then I keep thinking at the end of the day, that's not more info than people can get from the phone book, so what is the point? (Not that I'm in the phone book anymore, but my details can still be obtained from directory enquiries...)

 

[peanut]

Lloyds bank have given all our banking and personal details to people in India
How safe do you think that is given the state of their economy and high level of fraud.?
Might as well post my security details on ebay

 

[Globalti]

We had our debit card skimmed at an Indian restaurant in Holcombe Brook, near Bury. A week later just before Christmas, £1700 disappeared from our account in a couple of days. A bogus card had been made in the name of a Mrs Baig who drove around Greater Manchester helping herself to about 55 transactions for Asda and Tesco shopping with small cashbacks, saris, indian sweets, restaurant meals, hotel rooms, petrol and so on. We gave the statement to the Police pointing out that here was a detailed minute-by-minute itinerary of ths woman's life over 24 hours and all they had to do was go and look at a few CCTV records at the right times and they'd see her. Were they interested? Were they feck.

Stood behing an Asian bloke at a petrol station last week who was holding a brand new shiny card, which he tried to use to buy various small items like cigerettes and sweets. It was refused twice so the cashier just handed it to him and the bloke disappeared without his goods. The cashier smiled at me and said something to the effect of "that one won't work then, will it?

My secretary's son got his card skimmed by a card reader on a cash machine inside an Asian newsagents last month.

A pattern sems to be emerging here....

 

[asterix]

What pattern is that? I don't quite follow your logic?