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Safemedia Warns of More P2p Identity Theft in Aftermath of Seattle Criminal Indictment

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Safemedia Warns of More P2p Identity Theft in Aftermath of Seattle Criminal Indictment

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Safemedia Warns of More P2p Identity Theft in Aftermath of Seattle Criminal Indictment

By: George S. Mc Quade III

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Article Source: http://www.articlesbase.com/ – Safemedia Warns of More P2p Identity Theft in Aftermath of Seattle Criminal Indictment

Boca Raton, Fla. – SafeMedia, citing a Sept. 7, 2007 Seattle indictment, believes it is the first case involving P2P networks. U.S. Secret Service, U.S. Postal Inspection Service, and the Seattle Police indicted Gregory Thomas Kopiloff of Seattle for allegedly using information on tax returns, bank statements and credit reports to obtain identity information to defraud consumers, banks and retailers.

According to their investigation, thousands of potential criminals each day use P2P networks to steal consumer information necessary to commit identity theft and fraud.

SafeMedia’s P2PD solutions guarantees complete Identity theft protection for any computer connected to a government, corporate or university network, cable or DSL modem that has a P2P client installed. SafeMedia’s P2PD technology is the only solution that can guarantee complete protection of your computer from identity theft associated with contaminated Peer 2 Peer networks. SafeMedia’s P2PD eliminates the threat of criminals who are using encrypted or non encrypted contaminated P2P networks to steal government, corporate and personal identity information.

“Most people who use P2P networks don’t even know that they have exposed sensitive government, corporate and personal, financial, and health information and this indictment on an alleged Seattle fraud ring shows what a group of ID thieves could do if they grab your information,” said President/COO Pasquale Giordano, SafeMedia Corp.

“SafeMedia’s P2P Disaggregator (P2PD) Solutions is the only solution that can guarantee that criminals using P2P network clients can never access government, corporate or personal records,”

he said.

According to a four-count indictment unsealed in U.S. District Court, Thomas Kopiloff used Limewire, Soulseek and other “peer-to-peer” file-sharing programs to troll other computers for financial information, which he used to open credit cards for an online shopping spree. The report said he bought more than $73,000 worth of goods online, then resold those items at steep discounts and kept the proceeds.

This is not the first time that thieves using P2P networks have stolen personal identity information. Pfizer lost more than 15,000 employee records to inadvertent filesharing by an employee on a contaminated P2P network. They are now facing a class action lawsuit by their employees.

SafeMedia technology “P2P Disaggregator (P2PD)” is a unique technology that eliminates all the threats of contaminated Peer-To-Peer (P2P) networks. SafeMedia’s technology makes it impossible for a computer to contact or be contacted by a contaminated P2P network.

It prevents uploading and downloading of any files to contaminated P2P networks — the primary sources of identity theft and illegal digital copyrighted file sharing. SafeMedia solution never invades user privacy and allows all legitimate P2P networks and Internet traffic to pass unencumbered at network speeds.

“SafeMedia’s P2PD technology is embedded in DSL and cable modems in the home or work environment

or as a subnet appliance to protect government, corporate or university networks.” This installation model eliminates any network latency and eliminates bandwidth consumption at a subnet level associated with contaminated P2P networks. The end result is a safer, faster Internet experience for all users and a network

that consumes less bandwidth,” explained Giordano.

Federal prosecutors say Kopiloff was allegedly responsible for stealing dozens of consumer identities, then using those identities to purchase goods for resale, counterfeit checks, and set-up fraudulent online bank accounts. Unlike previous ID and fraud cases, the man arrested allegedly used peer-to-peer or P2P file sharing networks to find his victim’s tax returns, credit reports, and bank statements by searches made through P2P file sharing networks. He is charged with mail fraud, accessing a protected computer, and two counts of aggravated identity theft. Authorities allege he victimized at least 83 people.

This Summer Retired General Wesley Clark labeled P2P networks as the “next national security threat.”

CEO & Chairman, Safwat Fahmy, SafeMedia Corp. couldn’t agree more. “If teenagers are filesharing music or movies (over P2P networks), who knows how many criminals might be sharing the family’s personal information, credit cards, bank passwords and social security numbers with scheme operators who buy them,” said Fahmy, who created Clouseau®, a practical and cost effective technology to stop illegal file sharing on contaminated P2P networks. “I don’t think parents would allow their children to download free music or movies over P2P networks if they knew their kids were also sharing family photo files or personal information with everyone,” he noted.

“A recent landmark ruling by an Arizona court, Atlantic v. Howell, means that anyone who has P2P programs on their computer connected to a contaminated P2P network (even without downloading files) is committing copyright infringement since the only reason to have the programs is to make copyrighted files available to all other users,” said Pasquale Giordano, president & COO, SafeMedia Corp.

“Unknowing Internet users are duped into breaking the law and jeopardizing their standing and their futures as law-abiding citizens,” explained Fahmy. “Even when parents know that their children are using popular sites like LimeWire, eMule, uTorrent and dozens of others, most of them are not techies enough to understand these illegal P-2-P networks features,” explained Fahmy. “The problem is, on the surface they appear to be so easy to use; parents believe that they are safe.”

SafeMedia estimates more than 700 contaminated P2P networks facilitate 70 million illegal downloads daily.

SafeMedia’s technology solution does not require users to install anything on their computers to be protected.

[Editors: For more information about SafeMedia Corp.’s new product line visit: www.SafeMedia.com.]

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In all the sensational reporting about identity theft and ID fraud over the last few years, the focus has primarily been on the misuse of the victim’s credit cards, the rifling of bank accounts and other financial crimes. However, the charge cards and banking information are not the only proceeds of the crime that the perpetrators value.

The identity itself, with supporting documents, can be infinitely more valuable than a credit card. The credit cards will be reported lost and will be useless minutes after the theft is discovered. Unfortunately, you cannot “cancel” your identity, even as someone else starts to use it.

The fact is, much identity theft is just a means to an end for a certain kind of swindler. Often, these are people without solid work or residential histories, no credit rating to speak of and so forth. However, armed with your driver’s license, Social Security card and a little bit of counterfeiting skill (or someone else’s, for a price), someone else can hijack your identity – and get a new job with it.

Stolen identities are not the only things that surface when companies do criminal records checks, but they should show up quickly. Among the first things that a hiring firm should do, prior to making a job offer to candidates, is to establish that they are just who they claim to be. Ironically, the first basic steps should weed out the worst malefactors, while companies will continue to have trouble with others who appear, on the surface and at first, to be “stand up” people.

For all of you who make hiring decisions – small business people, big-company personnel representatives, executive recruiters and employment agencies– the following information is perhaps not earthshakingly new, but reviewing this article may help you cross all your T’s and dot all your I’s in your upcoming background checks. More importantly, it should remind you how crucially important it is to screen new-hires.

From basic to advanced checks

With the advent of the Internet, there are many inexpensive sources for legally obtaining personal details about a job candidate. However, depending on the extent of the background check required, you may need nothing more high-tech than a telephone to separate the wheat from the chaff.

One of the first things you should do is confirm the contact information you have been given. Verify the applicant’s address (MapQuest.com and Google Maps are both great), and for heaven’s sake, call the emergency contact(s) and all references. At some point, you should inject into the discussions the physical description of the candidate (if you know it).

A quick call should be made to every company listed in the candidate’s employment history. There are laws, both federal and state-level, restricting the kinds of information and comments that can be shared with potential employers. However, you can check the dates of employment, job titles and beginning/ending salaries. Make sure these are in accord with your applicants’ claims.

There are a variety of ways, from free to quite costly, to check other information on your candidates. Using the Internet – with, again, both free and fee-based services – you can get criminal records from the courts in most U.S. jurisdictions, check Social Security numbers and run credit reports. Depending on what you want to spend, and the amount of access the prospective employee will have to finances or items of value, you may even decide to use a professional investigative service. Be prepared to spend thousands of dollars for an extensive background check of an executive-level candidate.

The reason and rationale

Remember, the point of gathering the data is not just to get a list of facts and figures about Mr. or Ms. Prospect. This is the age of ID theft, so you also want to confirm that the person presenting himself as John Doe is, in fact, John Doe – and, moreover, the specific John Doe from the specific place and specific college mentioned on his application.

The Internet has given ID thieves the advanced tools and techniques to assume various identities, forge documents, obtain and modify legitimate ones, even create a history and a life record out of nothing but “cyber dust.” You must, therefore, be prepared to use tools and techniques just as powerful to weed out the frauds and protect your business.

Particularly when hiring office personnel, of any management grade, you run the risk of giving the safe combination to a thief. Even people with no criminal records can be criminals. In fact, they are the better criminals, as they have not yet been caught. The critical importance of safeguarding your company’s finances, its inventory and, not least, its reputation, means you must be prepared – as well as insured, of course.

One policy doesn’t fit all

You will have to make some trade-offs in this area, as in all other areas of business planning. You cannot afford a full, private-investigator-led background check on every employee. For instance, you could spend more on checking out, say, the swing shift janitor than he could possibly steal in a year, assuming your company’s good security and limited number of door keys.

On the other hand, a new accounting manager with access to the bank accounts and signature authority needs to be checked rather thoroughly. What you need to do is determine what level of background checks makes sense, from a cost and a planning standpoint, for each class or type of position at your firm. Once you have established a sensible budget for the checks, you then need to design a clear, consistent policy for doing them.

Develop a pool of online resources to use as needed. Write down the procedure for using the free research tools, and devise a decision matrix for determining what you will pay to check the background of applicants for various positions (at your fee-based services of choice). Cross train several employees in this procedure so that you will always be able to initiate background checks, regardless of who may be out sick.

A good con artist can swoop down like a hawk out of clear sky, seemingly from out of nowhere, and rob you blind in a matter of nanoseconds – the unit of time that measures how fast computers’ CPUs process instructions. It’s billionths of a second, and it is only the slightest of exaggerations to say that the new high-tech crooks operate “in the dark at the speed of light.”

You need to protect your business against fraud of many kinds. Like the vampire myth, these kinds of “enemies” also need to be invited in, and they rely on personality, smooth talk, an aura of respectability and sheer nerve.

Interestingly, the term “confidence men” was coined not to describe your feelings about the crooks – that you trusted them, had confidence in them – but rather to describe the attitude the crooks have toward you. They are confident that most people will be fooled. You don’t have to be one of them. With the proper procedures in place, and the discipline to use them, you can save your business from being victimized by criminals – the old ones who’ve been caught before, and the new ones your new background checks will expose.

Instant People Check is a leading provider of an instant criminal background check online. For just $12.95 you’ll a lot more about your potential new hire that they may want you to. You can do national or state-specific criminal records checks quickly and cheaply.

Put An End to Criminal Identity Theft

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Being mistaken for someone else can be very hazardous. It can actually get you punished for something you never did. A couple of situations have already cropped up when someone else in a course of a criminal act uses another persons identity.

Many criminals have had the ability to get crucial and vital information, such as social security number, addresses, credit card numbers, bank accounts, birth certificates and etcetera to commit crimes.

The imposter uses someone else’s identification. Not only that, most of the imposter uses fraudulent information or in this case, true personal information but not their own. The fake identification can lead the crime to someone else. As a result, the innocent person will suffer from all of the consequences of the crime commited.

In a traffic scenario, criminal identity theft can also happen. Traffic imposter that violates the traffic rules can use a fraudulent driver’s license with another persons name. By doing this, they can escape the traffic fine or escape from appearing in court as the law requires. The fine goes to another persons record.

The judge will surely issue a warrant of arrest for traffic violation. Unfortunately, the license card is in the name of the victim. Because of this, the imposter will never appear in any court hearing. The worst thing is that, the victim is normally arrested upon a routine traffic stop.

Criminal identity theft is more complicated compared to financial identity theft. Fortunately, unlike other theft cases, criminal identity theft is very rare. In this case the imposter has a rigid form of identify complex. Especially if the suspect uses a different fraud identity, the police department will surely have a hard time looking for the perpetrator.

At the present situation, police are very much more cautious when it comes to criminal identity theft. This offense is considered to be an extreme personal crime. Moreover, records are not easily cleared which could cause several problems with transactions a person may undertake. For example, a criminal record, albeit false, can mar a clean record causing a person some problems with say his credit or a job opportunity.

Not only that, criminal identity imposter can also tamper with some bank account charges of the victim. It can also make some bank account withdrawals and social security tampering. Unrelated crimes can also be committed by the imposter for whom the victim may be held responsible.

Criminal identity theft can also affect the victim in obtaining a job. The imposter can simply use the other personal documents in some events. An impostor can steal from a company and the assumed identity may get the bum wrap for the act done.

The real trouble in identity theft is that the burden of proof relies on the victim’s evidences. The victim must have enough information and data in order to clear up the issues. Not only that, if the imposter had committed a serious offense, the trial can take years. It can even cost the victim thousands of dollars to clear his or her name. These are more conveniences on the part of the victim.

In most cases, the victim is required to have a set of circumstances. The victim must render enough time and evidences to clear the issue on his or her criminal records. A good lawyer should also be retained, the sooner you clear your name and your records the better it will be for you.

If you ever found out that someone is using your identity, don’t wait for the authorities to pick you up, do actions already to minimize the potential damage it may cause.

What are things that an individual should do when criminal identity theft happened?

• The very first thing that he must do is to report the incident. The local law enforcement agency must know the misidentification issue.

• Proper impersonation report must be filled officially. The victim must not take all things for granted. He must act as soon as possible to prevent serious troubles.

• Having enough information about the particular laws of the state is important. The victim must know the proper proceedings when it comes to identity theft. Here is where a good and knowledgeably lawyer will be very handy.

This kind of criminal offense happens more often than what everybody thinks. It has already destroyed countless lives of innocent people. Do not let somebody damage your reputation. Take the essential precautions to protect yourself from criminal identification theft.

Gord Shin is owner of Identity Theft Prevention Guide. Please visit Identity Theft Protection

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