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Re: Why Blockbuster looks at your ID.

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Perry E. Metzger)
Sat Jul 9 11:03:40 2005

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To: Adam Shostack <adam@homeport.org>
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From: "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@piermont.com>
Date: Fri, 08 Jul 2005 14:36:53 -0400
In-Reply-To: <20050708172654.GA51669@lightship.internal.homeport.org> (Adam
 Shostack's message of "Fri, 8 Jul 2005 13:26:54 -0400")


Adam Shostack <adam@homeport.org> writes:
> I think those numbers are misleading.  The FTC reports ID theft as a
> $50B problem, but I haven't seen that broken down by vector.  I
> suspect most of it is CC (rather than cheque, mortgage/line of
> credit/auto loan), but have no data.

If you or anyone else has figures available, especially references to
original source material on the subject, it would be very useful.

Perry

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