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Top 10 US Cities for Identify Theft
mensnewsdaily.com — The 10 US cities you are likely to be ijacked in, as well as the 10 safest cities.
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- DephexTwin, on 10/12/2007, -1/+81Is iJacking really a word people use? If so, please stop.
- Pile, on 10/12/2007, -19/+4Identity theft is a non-issue for the most part. If your credit card info is used without your permission, you're not liable. The Fair Credit Billing Act addressed this twenty years ago, but for some reason, the media seems to think there aren't enough things to scare the crap out of the American people over, hence this non-issue.
http://BSAlert.com/ - espek, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8Yeah but if you're the merchant (i.e. the seller) where the card was used, say on a phone order or internet transaction where you don't need the physical card, you're 100% liable. And that's very tough for merchants because they were selling the goods in good faith.
- njoneja, on 10/12/2007, -1/+10People who think identity theft and credit card fraud are the same thing are mistaken. Identity theft involves impersonating someone, usually using their Social Security number or another private form of identification (e.g. fake drivers' license etc). And that is a serious problem.
- sabster, on 10/12/2007, -3/+4Of course New Orleans is on the list there isnt even anything there anymore it should be number 1
- helusay, on 10/12/2007, -8/+1Dude, people use PWN as if it was a legitimate word. That needs to stop... that and purported.
- misterfalcon, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Try applying for a mortgage when you have fraudulent credit card charges on your credit report because someone opened up a credit card under your name. You won't think identity theft is not such a big deal then.
- bluemech, on 10/12/2007, -2/+7E-please, i-stop e-using e-dumbass net-words. They're e-nnoying and i-stupid and e-add nothing to e-nything. I especially hate when newscasters use them as if it's a regular occurence. As everyone goes around talking about the lastes "e-lebrities" and they're i-vendtures.
- Scout, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Even if you're not personally held liable, where do you think the money comes from? It costs you, and me, and eveyone else in increased prices on ALL the goods you buy. The money to cover these transactions doesn't fall from the sky.
- Arch, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1iHope not.
- Clbck, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1=/ I thought he meant hijacked.
- jefbob, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1@njoneja - "People who think identity theft and credit card fraud are the same thing are mistaken. Identity theft involves impersonating someone, usually using their Social Security number or another private form of identification (e.g. fake drivers' license etc). And that is a serious problem."
So if I take your credit card into a store and use it, you wouldn't consider that me impersonating you? Personally I see credit card fraud as a "type" of identity theft. - palmer, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0It's stupid, but no more stupid than "Web 2.0". Why not entreat people to stop that, while they're at it?
- KenG6, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1They use it in the article, and there's even a site for it: http://www.stopijacking.com/index.asp
Or should I say, "They use it in the e-article, and there's even an e-site for it"? ;)
Never mind - that just sounds i-diotic.
- Pile, on 10/12/2007, -19/+4Identity theft is a non-issue for the most part. If your credit card info is used without your permission, you're not liable. The Fair Credit Billing Act addressed this twenty years ago, but for some reason, the media seems to think there aren't enough things to scare the crap out of the American people over, hence this non-issue.
- PlasticLack, on 10/12/2007, -0/+13My favorite part of the article is when the 8 gets placed next to the closing parentheses ...
...Oh yeah, dude - Las Vegas- Phyltre, on 10/12/2007, -1/+13Apparently if you wear sunglasses there your risk increases even further.
That, or the term iJacking is so idiotic even the numbers can't help laughing at it. - huphtur, on 10/12/2007, -4/+0That's what happens when people don't know how to use semantic markup.
- enterprisesos, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Vegas is so cool that everyone wears sunglasses ... all the time
- Phyltre, on 10/12/2007, -1/+13Apparently if you wear sunglasses there your risk increases even further.
- Mrkamikaze, on 10/12/2007, -4/+3It appears obvious to me that in the west/southwest with the high number of illegal immigrants that there would be more identity theft then in the east coast where that problem is a lot less severe.
- finkployd, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5Actually according to a NYT artice yesterday (http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/11/us/11meth.html) it has a lot more to do with meth than it does with illegal immigrants.
- AncientWeird, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1Of course little joe illegal brought along his laptop with him from Mexico. Why wouldn't he use all of his modern tech skills and try to steal someones social security number?
- rodan32, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6In Salt Lake the meth labs are almost always connected to illegal aliens. The chief of police was on the tube the other day with some stats - 84% of drug and gang arrests are illegals. Not saying we don't have tons of really nice, hard-working illegals around; we do, and some are my friends and neighbors. But there is a correlation there.
- xocomil, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3I think the woman who had her identity stolen by illegal aliens would agree with your statement. She now has the government trying to collect back taxes for the work she has done in 17 different states apparently impersonating 81 different people.
For those of you who haven't seen this story, here's a link: http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/06/17/ap/national/mainD8I9KEEG0.shtml - klacour, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Misconception - most IDs are stolen on-line.
My ID was stolen at a car dealership. Salesman took everything he needed right off my credit application.
- dumbnutz, on 10/12/2007, -2/+0I wonder how one comes up with such statistics. The correlation between ATM use and Online purchase.
If people use such technologies irrespective of geogrpahic location one is prone to the technologies being compromised.
One could argue that people who use ATM's and Bank Online etc are also likely to be educated and hence will be more likely to be careful on protecting their identity.
Such statistics are just giving someone work to to do as it probably will have little or no impact in those listed cities. - Fett101, on 10/12/2007, -1/+10http://www.duggmirror.com/security/Top_10_US_Cities_for_Identify_Theft/
- birkoph, on 10/12/2007, -22/+1TEN MOST RISKY CITIES
1) San Francisco
Wow a lot of people seems to want to be gay.- paradoxic, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8Are you < 15 years old by chance?
How in the world is sexual preference related to this article? Maybe I miss your humor?
Please educate me.
- paradoxic, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8Are you < 15 years old by chance?
- Fett101, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3(smiley face with sunglasses) Las Vegas
It's always amusing when I see that. - foobar5892, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3"Identify" theft?
- tizz66, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Oops...
- FlyingLlama, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1no it's iDentity theft.
- deansfurniture5, on 10/12/2007, -5/+2I like how #8 got turned into a smiley.
- NSMike, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Woo hoo! Pittsburgh hits the bottom of the list. Spectacular. Good news for me, although not really surprising, considering the number of elderly citizens we have not even bothering with the internet.
- jer2eydevil88, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Woohoo the poor cities have less identity theft!! Well I guess its good I live in Cincinnati :-)
Its only $900 to rent a 4 floor house and no worries about identity theft, just being shot by some coke fiend. - Highborn, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2San Francisco is about $1500 for a crappy studio apartment. You can move to the suburbs for less, but the only issue with that is . . . well . . . it is the suburbs.
- tdogg241, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2Neat.
- zafw05, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1Los Angeles is #15, Hum. That sounds about right I guess.
- n4cr2k, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1woo hoo #50
- Mace37, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1I assumed that San Fransisco would be first, and I assumed New Orleans would be last. I was close, though it's quite obvious.
- Anders, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Alright #24, I guess we just have more of a chance of being shot or hijacked o.O
- hawkmucci, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1@Anders: Detroit baby! yeah!
it's funny that 3 of the top 4 are major technology cities. perhaps it's leads to a bunch of disgruntled or laid-off from the bubble employees to make back a little cash.
- hawkmucci, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1@Anders: Detroit baby! yeah!
- gregharmon, on 10/12/2007, -0/+15Since the page is loading slow ( for me. )
TEN MOST RISKY CITIES
1) San Francisco
2) Seattle
3) Denver
4) San Jose
5) San Diego
6) Atlanta
7) Salt Lake City
8) Las Vegas
9) Sacramento
10) Phoenix
TEN LEAST RISKY CITIES
41) Rochester
42) Providence
43) Cincinnati
44) Cleveland
45) Virginia Beach
46) New Orleans
47) Birmingham
48) Louisville
49) Buffalo
50) Pittsburgh - AncientWeird, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I live in Seattle, #2. Sucks for me i guess if this is even remotely true.
- tdogg241, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Yeah, I'd like to know what their criteria is for determining this list. I personally haven't ever been a victim of identity theft, nor has anyone I know. So that leads me to believe that either the list is just wrong or it's a non-issue to begin with (probably both). They probably just said "well, Amazon's in Seattle and Microsoft is nearby, let's put them at #2."
- charbarred, on 10/12/2007, -3/+3You didn't even post that comment, did you? Someone else hijacked your username and posted it for you...
- dreserd, on 10/12/2007, -2/+0@tdogg241
You need to move to S.F., or to a lesser extent Seattle.
You and your friends must be from Pittsburgh.
- slampaladino, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1Pittsburgh at #50... sort of makes sense. There's NOTHING to DO THERE!!
- djNullSpace, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Not only is there nothing to do, why would you want to assume the miserable identity of someone that lives there?
- coreyo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2even though you're not liable.. if people get your social or screw with your credit cards-- your credit can get screwed up and changing your credit due to fraud takes forever and often does not get fixed correctly.
- Mitchl, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1This is really no fun. Last year someone used by SSN to buy some camera gear from Dell on Dell Instant credit. Pretty amazing really, they made up an address (123 Second St), made up a birthday (July 4, 1950), made up a shipping address (showed as invalid in both Google and Mapquest), Dell pulled my credit report and with only the SSN correct (and maybe my name) Dell issued $5k worth of credit. I had to spend a lot more time with the cops and sending paperwork back and forth than I care to remember-- and Dell did not keep me liable, but also never obeyed Federal law in providing me, the victim, what they had to provide me in regards to the sales information and credit information from the transaction. Since Dell was the only one STUPID or CORRUPT enough to issue credit without so much as a matching birthday, that was the only instance of fraud against me-- but it still took more time and trouble than anyone should have to put up with. The other unbelievable thing is that I had a current order for a laptop in the Dell.com system, I never used their credit always charging for the past 8 years to the same credit card-- but nobody stopped to figure out why this time I would ship to a different state, and need to have instant credit to do it.
My advice is to get alerts from at least one (preferably all) of the credit companies, and check what is happening on inquiries. Also, DON'T BUY DELL. I was a regular customer with a history of purchases, and they treated me like *****, when all it would have taken is simple algorythms to check the credit request against my previous Dell purchases, or against my credit report.
- Mitchl, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1This is really no fun. Last year someone used by SSN to buy some camera gear from Dell on Dell Instant credit. Pretty amazing really, they made up an address (123 Second St), made up a birthday (July 4, 1950), made up a shipping address (showed as invalid in both Google and Mapquest), Dell pulled my credit report and with only the SSN correct (and maybe my name) Dell issued $5k worth of credit. I had to spend a lot more time with the cops and sending paperwork back and forth than I care to remember-- and Dell did not keep me liable, but also never obeyed Federal law in providing me, the victim, what they had to provide me in regards to the sales information and credit information from the transaction. Since Dell was the only one STUPID or CORRUPT enough to issue credit without so much as a matching birthday, that was the only instance of fraud against me-- but it still took more time and trouble than anyone should have to put up with. The other unbelievable thing is that I had a current order for a laptop in the Dell.com system, I never used their credit always charging for the past 8 years to the same credit card-- but nobody stopped to figure out why this time I would ship to a different state, and need to have instant credit to do it.
- heysuburbia, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4Complete list, #1 being the worse:
Complete Rankings
1) San Francisco
2) Seattle
3) Denver
4) San Jose
5) San Diego
6) Atlanta
7) Salt Lake City
8) Las Vegas
9) Sacramento
10) Phoenix
11) Portland
12) Washington
13) Dallas-Fort Worth
14) Riverside
15) Los Angeles
16) Chicago
17) Minneapolis-St. Paul
18) Austin
19) Charlotte
20) Orlando
21) Indianapolis
22) Houston
23) Miami
24) Detroit
25) Baltimore
26) Boston
27) Kansas City
28) Hartford
29) New York
30) Philadelphia
31) Columbus
32) Tampa
33) Oklahoma City
34) St. Louis
35) San Antonio
36) Milwaukee
37) Jacksonville
38) Richmond
39) Memphis
40) Nashville
41) Rochester
42) Providence
43) Cincinnati
44) Cleveland
45) Virginia Beach
46) New Orleans
47) Birmingham
48) Louisville
49) Buffalo
50) Pittsburgh- Glissy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1You did #8 wrong - it is supposed to be a smiley 8)
- Sockman109, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0The phrasing on this title is a bit awkward. The phrase "Top 10" implies that having your identity stolen is a favorable situation and these are the 10 best cities in which to have it occur.
- Muddle, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Buy a crosscut shredder and shred everything that doesn't say current occupant.
Call 888-567-8688 and tell them no more credit card applications. You'll have to enter data on all household members. If I want a credit card I'll contact you via my bank, never attempt to contact me via snail mail, e-mail or any other unsecured channel.- Muddle, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I've an awesome idea for a better shredder. Contact me for details as I want a slice of the pie.
- icdeadpeople, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0DANG, #20 is orlando, where i live, that sucks... oh well
- Clbck, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I would be happy if I was at 20. I'm number 2 (Seattle).
- Timan, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Ah Virginia Beach is finally useful for something.
- tfragala, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0iJacking is word manufactured by a PR flack so that the company Intersections, Inc. can "own" it and be the foremost provider of iJacking solutions. It's just a new word for identity theft, that's all. Just be aware of that.
- merdiesel, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Number 1. well that sucks. I live in Sac now so i guess dropping back 8 spots is alright.
- Sell, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1FTA - " The study also finds a correlation between transaction rates and affluence, showing that those with the most to lose are also at the most risk for losing it."
Proverbs -"A rich man may be able to ransom his life but a poor man hears no threat." - MrCodeDude, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Alright, repping #4.
- infinium, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1interestingly his page won't let you do a search on it. (CTL-F on WindoWz)
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