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Identity thieves are offering a person's credit-card number, date of birth, and other sensitive information for as little as $14 over the Internet, said a new report on online threats released Monday.

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normallysilent
March 19, 2007, 2:20 p.m.
anyone which is willing to pay $14.00 to be me is in need of a mental evaluation. If possible I would pay someone a lot more than that to be me.
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aldomatic
March 19, 2007, 6:04 p.m.
I go to the highest bidder :o)
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bgibbs07
March 19, 2007, 7:28 p.m.
I wonder if they're selling Bill Gates. I always wanted to give being the richest person in the world a try.
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magiccurveball
March 19, 2007, 7:49 p.m.
id theft ... bring back public executions (this coming from a liberal)... these people are scum and our govt needs to step in ASAP on this type of crime!!!
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Macondo
March 19, 2007, 7:56 p.m.
Identity thief is becoming so prevalent.
I do not mean by hacking your information but by cloning your credit card, or opening a revolving account.
The accounts are pushed by legitimate business. To mention some: Radio Shack, Target, Sears, Home Depot, etc.
The problem is while someone obtains one of this cards, utilizing information related to a different person.
They my get the revolving credit and then go on a shopping spree.
My credit card was cloned once few years ago, most likely in a small gas station in North Bay Village (Florida).
Soon the clone was used in Fort Lauderdale only one day with expenses of nearly $5000.
After protesting the bill (my credit card has my picture on it) the clone could not have it!, Master-Card was not even interested in recording from me the information, about the unusual manner the gas station employee handled my card prior to the incident.
My charges were reversed. After this I am "paranoid" showing my ID, giving my SS.# or address.
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whatawurld
March 19, 2007, 9:03 p.m.
get the government involved.....who do you think is handing out all your information the Bush administration for 14.00 got to pay for all those bombs in Iraq someway.
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Reachport
March 19, 2007, 9:36 p.m.

Now, this is a war that would be worth fighting. The penalties
should sharp and severe. No mercy for this type of crime.
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Auzie
March 19, 2007, 10:06 p.m.
That's what I want to be when I grow up!
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rjet50
March 19, 2007, 11:06 p.m.
Excellent ... now if we could just post everyones id who works in congress on some website, someone might actually do something instead of sticking it to us little guys, whenever, someone scams us. I love the junk mail that tells me how much my home loan is and how much they can save me. ... how much for the U. S. House and U.S. Senate id package?
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BronxBomber
March 19, 2007, 11:07 p.m.
If one person is willing to pay 14 bucks to be me..with my bad credit!? HAH! Good luck!
($14.00- Man! these rats works cheap!)
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BananaSlug
March 19, 2007, 11:20 p.m.
SSN should not be used for anything other than governmental (as in, your social security payments), or employment purposes. Period. It should be illegal to use it in any other way. They need to come up with a different system of identifying people, and make companies liable for leaking info, or giving out fraudulent forms of ID or credit, and not only when there's been fraud, but simply because the info is now out there, and it was their job to make sure that didn't happen.
SSN for under-age people (under 18) or those who have died should be red tagged, and the companies liable in full if they don't pay attention to that fact.
I wish I could credit blacklist myself for credit cards and loans without hurting my credit score. Unless they see my face and my five forms of ID and my birth certificate... sheesh. Don't. Trust. Them.
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BananaSlug
March 19, 2007, 11:22 p.m.
Oh, and as a further note, it's not always used for card scams. Illegals get this info so they can get jobs and such... which sucks for whomever they're impersonating, because if they comit a crime, or even get a traffic citation... guess who is also looking fishy?
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tfragala
March 20, 2007, 12:32 a.m.
bananaslug,
and dont forget, that if someone gets a job in with your ID/SSN and doesnt pay payroll taxes, the IRS will think you owe the money and come after you. worse, that person may give your SSN to 1, 10, 100 other people so they can work using your identity. employers are not required to match SSN in any way and the Soc Sec Admin is not even ALLOWED by law to cross check SSN with name, sex, address!!
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STILLWATER00
March 20, 2007, 3:25 a.m.
I read the disabled when they applying for a credit card .The card has the higest rate of security issued for security reasons/?
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Justice4All
March 20, 2007, 5:58 a.m.
This is an easy problem to solve. The problem is that the credit card companies do not want to solve it. It helps justify the high charges and interest rates. All losses get passed on to the consumer anyway. If the banks were losing money over this they would put an end to it today.
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moushmoushi
March 20, 2007, 8:09 a.m.
ok , oh la la la la
I am very new to this, but if I was the president, I would replace the #;s to letters. then computers could not read the #'s and everyone being safe.
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moushmoushi
March 20, 2007, 8:11 a.m.
some one please vote on my comment. hurry up. lol