Your Evil Twin: Behind the Identity Theft Epidemic

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They can rob you blind or steal your identity before you suspect anything is wrong. Your Evil Twin covers this exploding crime from every possible angle. The crime of the twenty-first century doesn't discriminate: It includes exclusive whodunit details from mastermind identity thieves who have pilfered money from half the members of the Forbes , as well as exclusive interviews with a myriad of criminals in the Internet's underground, such as Russian hackers who have extorted money from U.

The book also issues a scathing indictment of the credit granting industry, from credit card issuers to the secretive credit reporting agencies, who have misunderstood the crime from the start, have been slow to respond, and bear much of the responsibility for the epidemic. Finally, Bob Sullivan, author and identity theft expert, probes the tepid solutions now being cobbled together by the industry and government.

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Your Evil Twin : Behind the Identity Theft Epidemic by Bob Sullivan (2004, Hardcover)

CEOs in My Closet. Some estimates say that nearly ten million Americans each year become victims—and Behind the Identity Theft Epidemic. Identity theft is the fastest-growing white-collar crime in America. Some estimates say that nearly ten million Americans each year become victims—and the crime shows no sign of letting up.

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Behind the Identity Theft Epidemic covers this exploding crime from every possible angle. Author and identity theft expert Bob Sullivan agrees that criminals should, without a doubt, be blamed for this crisis, but he also notes that so should those entrusted with our identities. Sullivan digs deep to reveal how institutions designed to protect our identities have let us down, while corporate America—in choosing profits over privacy—has shirked much of its responsibility for the problem.

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Very disappointed in the whole book. A waste of my time and money! Much has been written about identity theft, and what people have to go through to clear their credit reports. But what I had never given much thought to is that identity theft goes much beyond stealing identities for financial gain. In fact, what is much more difficult to deal with is when your identity is stolen and used by criminals in general.

Try to clear a supposed criminal record. And if you are in the United States, try to do that if you are black or Hispanic. A journalist by training, Sullivan presents an easy to read, if unsettling, narrative talking about different aspects of identity theft that do not often get discussed. Some of the material is material found in magazines and other journals, but the strength of this book is that it beings many different pieces into one place.

Sullivan starts out by showing that no one is immune to identity theft, whether it be a CEO or even Eldrick "Tiger" Woods. He goes into some detail explaining who was taken advantage of and how, though he does not offer solutions for the problems. But this does not mean he is afraid to take on the real villains in identity theft, the credit card companies and retailers who push easy credit every chance they get. Sullivan makes the excellent point that the availability of easy credit is actually better for the bad guys than those who do the right thing.

He also does not shy away from calling out the credit reporting agencies and their role in this problem.

Why should they be charging people for "Credit report watches", when they helped create the problem? It was fascinating from a historical perspective to read how the three major credit reporting companies came to be. It is a heck of a trivia question to ask how a railroad fits into the scheme of things.

You will, or at least should, find yourself challenged by the reality that the race factor plays in how victims are treated. Like it or not, we live in two Americas as clearly shown in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. Discussions of this topic in the book really offer a time for reflection and thought in the area of identity theft. One should not expect this book to answer every possible question about identity theft, but should be considered as part of a larger library on data privacy and identity theft.

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It provides a human perspective that other titles on the subject often lack. Who Should Read This Book? The Scorecard Birdie on an average Par 4. Why would anyone put a book out for sale that hasn't been proofread? But most of all, this book covers an extremely important subject, one of potential interest to just about everyone, and yet it was so shallow.

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I have been better informed about identity theft, what it is, what is being done about it, and what we can do if we are targeted as victims in local newspapers and in magazine articles. There was no discussion of many very common methods of identity theft, including observation of victims as they enter their ATM or telephone pin numbers and codes, inadvertantly leaving passwords and usernames on public computers, giving credit card numbers to untrustworthy websites, using credit cards in untrustworthy restaurants and stores, writing passwords in places others can easily access, being victimized by phishing schemes, etc.

Each of these and many more are methods of identity theft easily avoided yet this book doesn't mention them. Even the anecdotes left me hanging for more detail, more of what happened and why.

Instead, they rambled on disconnectedly and often had no beginnings nor conclusions. The organization of the book was sub-par, which accounted for much unnecessary repetition of minor details.

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