Willie Sutton Is Now Back Not As A Bank Robber But As A Modern Day Identity Thief

Several times, using his skill of disguise, dressed in agate of your money.
prison guards uniform utilized two ladders carried"Phisher" scams involving using web page similar to
across the yard and when a spot light hit him heyour financial institution or consumer retail store
yelled out, "It's ok" and continued his escape withoutlooking (logos and all) for passwords and personal
incident. Later, Sutton attributed the famous quoteinformation with Social Security numbers. This could
of "That's Where The Money Is" to an inventivebe E-Bay, Best Buys, Discover, AOL, MSN, Earthlink,
reporter embellishing a story. It was surmised that hePayPal, and Bank of America, Providian and other
had stolen around $2,000,000 over his career. Laterbanks such as Wells Fargo.
on accountants would use this theory to focus onSign In Rosters at schools and such where you list
high cost areas as a target for savings. It was calledyour Social Security and other personal information
the "Willie Sutton Rule" following "where the moneythat can be ripped off by any eyeball noting the
is" as its basis. While serving a long prison term afterinformation.
his capture in 1952 and was serving a 105 sentence.The famous Nigerian scam asking you to help them
With failing health, he was released in 1969 frommove money out of the country with a big reward
Attica State Prison and died November 2, 1980 atto the facilitator. This total fraud has fleeced many
age 79 in Spring Hill, Florida. His legacy lives on.citizens of their door.
Today, Willie Sutton, just arriving fresh out of theThe Canadian/Netherlands Lottery touting that hey
time machine, could be sitting in his home perhaps in"YOU WON". The new Spanish Lottery is now hot as
his underwear with a wry smile that this new gamewell. Naturally, you will be asked to post some cash
was really better than any bank job. With handsas good faith.
spread between the keyboard and mouse with aPromises of "Free Credit Reports" can be a scam
bent on "Philsing" and stealing as much money aswith bills and such showing up later OR your
possible online. A cold one would be close by with ainformation is utilized for a fleece job.
tasty snack. These "bank teller windows" are openOffers of a FREE GIFT will usually lead to costing you
365 days 24 hours a day, their motto might be "Weas you share your information.
never close". No more casing future jobs, no needE mailing and forwarding Chain Letters helps the con
for cleaver disguises, no need to carry a gun, no getcollect your friends and contacts e-mail addresses to
away car, no threat of shoot outs, no followingfleece them as well.
opening and closing times of the bank, all that isOffers to buy a CD on skip tracing someone
needed is an Internet connection and a computer.anywhere is utilized to gather your credit card
What a country!information that can be later used to rip you off.
There are many modern day "Willie Suttons" outQuestionnaires are a good device to gather personal
there trying to separate citizens from their hardinformation for "Bad Purposes" where Chat rooms
earned money. It is likewise a "worldwide robbery infor friends is a slick method to gather information on
progress" from the cafés from New Deli, fromcitizens. Won't you be my "friend"?
the depths of Asia or from anywhere in the worldPersons in acting as store security scams to catch a
where anyone in cyberspace is a potential target forbad employee all the while noting the personal
being fleeced of their money. Scams and consumerinformation of the target of identity theft.
alerts go from low tech to major firewall crashing andCharities on the phone, who are skilled at raising
intervention.money, call and prey on the good nature of the
From Dumpster diving looking for your personaldonors. Many times the charities get like 5% or less
information to all sorts of scams. Identity theft is oneof monies collected plus your information is used to
of the fastest growing crimes in the U.S. today. Thecommit a later Fraud. A "Do Not Call Verification"
con artists are skilled at putting together believablerepresentative calls to get verify personal information.
scripts and stories that will play well to theThis is done online or by mail, if ever.
unsuspecting pigeon. The mark wakes up only afterA person gets a call from a "clerk" of the court
their bank accounts have been cleaned out or theirregarding jury duty while verifying personal
credit cards maxed out.information. Again this is a scam. Normally, jury duty
The Identity Theft Resource Center is a non-profitis noted by mail.
organization dedicated to assisting citizens in fightingAdditional scams are referred to as:
scams. Some of the scams are summarized below:Disaster relief, FTC Warning Registry, IRS Scam,
Job Scams where you are asked to provide personal"Hospital Personnel", Pay Pal Verification-Phony, Credit
information including dates of birth and Social SecurityReporting Agencies ploy, Get Out Of Debt e-mail,
numbers. Some enterprising cons posted employmentand any new wrinkle with larceny in the hearts of the
ads to get applicants to share personal informationperpetrators of Identify Theft Scam.
that can be exploited. No job exists-the con is on.When conducting online business one must be very
Calls from credit card "Representatives" to verifycareful with personal and private information that can
unusual purchases and to verify your card by sharingbe turned around and used to the perpetrator's
the three-digit number code on the back of the card.advantage to screw the consumer. It is not limited to
This conversation follows after a lengthy discussionjust the U.S. as mentioned, it is now a worldwide
on avoiding credit card scam. It is the scam. Theyeffort to pull a scam. With the U.S. being heavily
already have your credit card number from otherwired on the Internet with good financial depth
sources, only now they need the additional key toconsumers' are a focused target for exploitation.