ID Theft

It’s never happened to me recently.

But about 25 years ago, I lived in a small Suffolk village, with only about 100 inhabitants. Someone else had the same name as I do. He also had a long criminal record, which caused me a lot of grief as a number of companies managed to mix us up, despite him being twenty years younger.

As an Internet consultant who has programmed systems for accountants that check IDs, most of the problems are down to the large organisations such as banks and credit card companies. Why is it that fraudsters concentrate their resources on two main UK banks? Because their security can’t be as good as the others!