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Offshored Identity Theft
Travoltus writes "The threat of increased misuse of consumer personal data by offshore criminals was first made publicly known with the UCSF Pakistani medical transcriber scandal. Then, in a logical progression of events, it was discovered that foreign criminal interests were offering money to offshored call center workers to surrender consumer data. Now that threat has been realized: Offshored call center staffers at Mphasis BPO have allegedly stolen £200,000 using United States customers' personal information. It is believed that Indian police reacted swiftly to catch the thieves, but only £12,000 has been recovered so far, and it is not really known who orchestrated this theft or where the rest of that money is now. It is also unknown as of yet how much of a mess this has created for the U.S. citizens who were victimized. Let's hope that the people whose information was stolen don't have to go through what other identity theft victims have to endure, to clean up their good name."
Please fill in you credit card number, social security number, date of birth, mother's maiden name and your password to all you most important information below:
"They took er jerrrrbs!"
Though, this time it's not as simple as preventing the future from happening.
"stolen £200,000 using United States customers' personal information"
£200,000?! I smell a rat. What kind of Americans keep that much British money around?
Yeah? Well it's pretty hard to enforce international law on the US.
You forgot to offer chocolate for it...
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I don't really care about identity theft If some one steals my identity and trashes it I'll just go and steal a new one :)
Seems to be an easy thing to do.
On behalf of American Identity Thieves Workers Union I would like to strongly protest against this clear
loss of jobs of American people!
Indian identity thieves steal our, American thieves jobs and endanger our true American way of life!
I honestly believe that our government should do something about it!
Is that someone who comes in and tries to clean up all the dirty words around here?