The Sun newspaper published an article today by undercover reporter Oliver Hardy concerning the sale of the details of Britons’ bank accounts by Indian call centre workers.
Your life for sale
Cash for a villain … crooked Kkaran Bahree with Sun undercover reporter Oliver Harvey in Delhi
Crooked call centre workers in India are flogging details of Britons’ bank accounts, a Sun probe has found.
Our undercover reporter was sold the top secret information on a thousand accounts, and numbers of passports and credit cards.
But what happens once those details have been stolen? For answers we look to the following New York Times article. Black Market in Stolen Credit Card Data Thrives on Internet
But surely the introduction of a National ID card will stop this blight of identity theft. Well actually no it won’t, it could even make it easier for criminals to steal your identity and the consequences will be far worse.
Tags: ID cards, Identity Theft
