Resumes and credit card fraud

Subject: Resumes and credit card fraud
From: Kelley <kelley -at- inkworkswell -dot- com>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com>
Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2005 20:39:23 -0500


I know we've discussed this before, but for those who haven't heard about it, it's worth bringing up again. In part, this paper discusses how online resumes can be used to fraudulently obtain credit cards. They point to a technology to defeat the vulnerability, but boy, I can imagine how that technology will, again, be exploited by spammers and phishing attacks.


<http://privacy.cs.cmu.edu/dataprivacy/projects/idangel/index.html>.

Title: AI Technologies to Defeat Identity Theft Vulnerabilities

Abstract:

When a large number of citizens are at risk to identity theft,
national security and economic prosperity are threatened.
This work shows that thousands of Americans are at such risk,
and introduces technology, named 'Identity Angel,' to help.
Identity Angel's goal is to crawl through information available
on the World Wide Web ('Web') and notify people for whom
information, freely available on the Web, can be combined
sufficiently to impersonate them in financial or credentialing
transactions. This is an ambitious goal due to the various
types of available information and the many inferences that
relate disparate pieces of data. Therefore, the work presented
herein focuses specifically on acquiring information sufficient
to fraudulently acquire a new credit card using on-line resumes.
An imposter needs to learn the {name, Social Security Number,
address, date of birth} of a subject. Results show how resumes
containing needed information can automatically be found and
values harvested, and how many subjects removed such
information from the Web once notified.


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