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Error puts data on 30 million German phone users on Internet (AFP)

The logo of German telecommunications giant Deutsche Telekom. Confidential data on 30 million German phone users could be consulted on the Internet as a result of an error until the phone company locked access, a spokesman for Deutsche Telekom said Saturday.(AFP/File/John Macdougall)AFP - Confidential data on 30 million German phone users could be consulted on the Internet as a result of an error until the phone company locked access, a spokesman for Deutsche Telekom said Saturday.


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03.26

2008

Identity Theft

The most common form of identity theft is credit card fraud. While the term is relatively new, the practice of thieving money or getting other benefits by pretence to be a different person is thousands of years old. Identity theft may also be a means of blackmail. There are also many cases of identity re-creating to fire payment systems, including medical insurance.

LoudSiren Identity Theft Warning System promotes as a full service solution to identity theft. This service, by Debix.com, does many things for you, including; contacting credit agencies and setting up fraud alerts, acting as a middle man between your credit information and personal information, making it more difficult to obtain and misuse it ,as well as giving you, as a member of their system, $1 million dollars in identity theft insurance coverage.

Debix works by placing a fraud alert on your credit report with all three agencies. They automatically renew it every three months, and instead of listing your personal information all calls to open new credit on your account are routed to the Debix call centre, which then tracks you down on different contact numbers. Any time someone contacts a credit agency to try to open an account in your name; you get a phone call to authorize it. It’s anti-exploitation for your credit history.



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  1. Also, reverse lookup on your phone number posted online gives away your street address. To prevent ID theft I recommend never posting your phone number online, instead use anonymous calling. I use “Call Me on Ccube” button (www.ccube.com) on
    most classified and social networking sites.

    - Pam

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