Comments on: Who are these identity thieves? http://blog.privcom.gc.ca/index.php/2009/06/30/who-are-these-identity-thieves/ Mon, 09 Jan 2012 14:51:41 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Dirk http://blog.privcom.gc.ca/index.php/2009/06/30/who-are-these-identity-thieves/comment-page-1/#comment-3983 Dirk Wed, 09 Dec 2009 04:25:42 +0000 http://blog.privcom.gc.ca/?p=378#comment-3983 Regarding Jim Harper's booka nd Mike's comment... I would suggest the identity is stolen. Fraudulent activity is committed after an identity obtained for fraudulent use. Often the identity is sold by "identity brokers" and not used by the thief itself. Would you say a credit card is "stolen" if lifted from someone's wallet or simply "fraudulently" used? I guess it is aruguable.... Regarding Jim Harper’s booka nd Mike’s comment… I would suggest the identity is stolen. Fraudulent activity is committed after an identity obtained for fraudulent use. Often the identity is sold by “identity brokers” and not used by the thief itself. Would you say a credit card is “stolen” if lifted from someone’s wallet or simply “fraudulently” used? I guess it is aruguable….

]]> By: mike waddingham http://blog.privcom.gc.ca/index.php/2009/06/30/who-are-these-identity-thieves/comment-page-1/#comment-3357 mike waddingham Fri, 10 Jul 2009 04:41:48 +0000 http://blog.privcom.gc.ca/?p=378#comment-3357 Sorry to nitpick... but the term 'Identity Theft' is, perhaps, incorrect. As Jim Harper points out in his excellent book 'Identity Crisis: How Identification is Overused and Misunderstood', the correct term should be Identity Fraud. His argument is that one's identity is not actually stolen -- it is borrowed for fraudulent purposes. Mike Sorry to nitpick… but the term ‘Identity Theft’ is, perhaps, incorrect. As Jim Harper points out in his excellent book ‘Identity Crisis: How Identification is Overused and Misunderstood’, the correct term should be Identity Fraud.

His argument is that one’s identity is not actually stolen — it is borrowed for fraudulent purposes.

Mike

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