Question

How Can a Thief Recreate Your Identity? Using the following three examples, determine how an identity thief can piece together additional information about you. Example A: You lost your wallet with your Social Security card and driver’s license tucked inside. Example B: A thief has your name and your email address, but to get your passwords for various websites, he needs the answers to your security questions. Example C: You use the computer at your public library. You checked your email and did some shopping, but when you left, you forgot log off or delete the cookies.

Answer 1

ANSWER:-

First of all , for a thief to access your bank account or find out some very crucial information about you such as ATM card number and pin and also seals your phone, on top of that he also knows your phone's lock screen passkey. Well, this feels like you have already lost your money .

Now , let us consider each scenario one by one.

Example A : you lost your wallet with your social security card and driver's license tucked inside.

  $\cdot \rightarrow$ So, your wallet is lost which contained your social security card and driver's licence inside it. Well, using this, no one can directly thief you. But, if we consider the thief has some more details such as your phone unlocked . Then for verification, the thief could use your social security card and driver's licence.

$\cdot \rightarrow$ your social security card and driver's licence do have most of your important details such as your name ,your phone number, your residential or official address , your parents name and also your picture.To see all these details if put together with your stolen phone number , this is bad for you.

Example B : A thief has your name, and your email address, but to get your passwords for various websites, he needs the answer to your security questions.

$\cdot \rightarrow$ Well, now a thief has your name and your email address is similar to example 1.But, in this case, the thief has your email address but he doesn't really know the password of that account. The thief can get to change the password using to" forgot password " method from that website. But still, it's not easy. the thief now can only change the password if he or she could answer the security question you have setup.

$\cdot \rightarrow$Now, let's look at some of the scenario which will help a thief to get hold of your account easily by answering the question:

1. Your email has your birth date in the form of numbers. For example ,it's [email protected], this should be avoided by any users as, people mostly set security questions based on their birth date.

2. The thief could be your close relative or pretending to be your friend who stays with you to know things about you such as your birth place and some other information on which the security questions are mostly asked. For example, some security questions are like " What is your birth place ?"

Example C : You use the computer at your public library. You checked your email and did some shopping. but when you left, you forgot logoff or delete the cookies.

   $\cdot \rightarrow$ Okay, so this now is bad for sure as your personal emails is left out without logging off on a public computer. This is a clear advantage for he thief to steal your thing or do some type of harm to you.

$\cdot \rightarrow$ If your account on a shopping site is still logged on' then the thief will try to exploit it by going through your credit card details you have just entered inside the site for the quicker transaction process.

  $\cdot \rightarrow$ Or it may happen that the thief has gained access and changed the address, phone number and has ordered some costly items in the location her or he wishes. Now as your bank account is linked, the money is deducted directly.

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