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Discover How And Why Internet Crime Is Growing So QuicklyInternet crime is growing at an astounding pace and has become more professional warned Symantec in September 2007. It seems that their regular - and one presumes, ongoing - study of underworld online crime is showing signs of massive increase. It does not take a genius to recognise the potential for a criminal to gain from many different types of internet crime - including identity theft - but it does seem that the criminals are becoming more organised. To read the BBC reporting please click here: BBC Article Clearly, we are virtually all at risk from this type of high tech crime. If you are reading this, then you have a pc and are potentially at risk from phishing, pharming and many different types of hacking. You will note from the BBC report that many criminals are 'joining up the dots' in our lives and using social networking sites and cvs posted on job sites to glean information and make their attacks more potent. This is starting to suggest that online at least, literally nothing is safe! Identity theft is one of the biggest and most profitable types of online crime which targets the individual and as such should be a worry to us all.
Online Identity Theft
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