The dangers of identity theft

[Bevan Price]

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Not offering advice, but I find it frightening how such a situation can seemingly arise so easily. It should be a warning to be very careful with personal information at all times, and especially on the internet. One reason why I would never participate in the likes of "twitbook" is that they want as much personal information as possible about you - and you can never be certain that it is 100% secure.

 

[Haywain]

Not offering advice, but I find it frightening how such a situation can seemingly arise so easily. It should be a warning to be very careful with personal information at all times, and especially on the internet. One reason why I would never participate in the likes of "twitbook" is that they want as much personal information as possible about you - and you can never be certain that it is 100% secure.

Finding someone’s name and address is really rather easy even without social media. And giving a valid name and address is all that would be required by a train company.

 

[hkstudent]

Finding someone’s name and address is really rather easy even without social media. And giving a valid name and address is all that would be required by a train company.

There are couple of Identity fraud incidents reported in this forum at last and this month. I am not sure if re-introducing nationwide ID scheme would solve the problem.

 

[87 027]

I am not sure if re-introducing nationwide ID scheme would solve the problem.

Government launched a call for evidence on Digital Identity in July 2019 and this explicitly states the intention is to create a secure digital identity system which doesn’t involve ID cards.

 

[najaB]

There are couple of Identity fraud incidents reported in this forum at last and this month. I am not sure if re-introducing nationwide ID scheme would solve the problem.

Suggest you have a look at this thread: https://www.railforums.co.uk/threads/identity-cards.163852/