Cringely on Identity Theft

Boiled Frog writes "Prompted by the theft of his mail, Cringely investigates how easy it is to steal identities from government publications. In this article he explains how he got the identities of 300,000 people which he calculates to be valued at $65 billion dollars. If Cringely can do it, anyone can."

Comments

Re:Stealing bank details

[tomhudson]

Oh, come off it, only an illiterate shit would fall for this. Look at all the typos/grammar errors:

At 09.05.2003 our company was attacked by unknown persons. Out administrator s is working on the database restoring. If you have an active account, please check if it is still active, your current balance is right and all transactions can be processed. If you find that your account is inactive, please letus know immediately at e-mail service@e-gold.com To check your account, please click on the link below: https://e-gold.com/sci_asp/payments.asp

"Administrators is" should be "administrator is" (singular) or "administrators are" (plural), not both.
"Working on the database restoring" should be "working on restoring the database" "...
all transactions can be processed" should be "all transactions have been processed"
"please letus know" should be "please let us know"

This is no better than the usual spam. (I'm being generous letting them off w. the "unknown persons" bit b/c, while it's bad grammar (person == singular, people == plural), but "person or persons unknown" has made it into the vernacular)..