Your Evil Twin: Behind the Identity Theft Epidemic
- ISBN-10
- 0471679712
- ISBN-13
- 9780471679714
- Category
- Business & Economics
- Pages
- 314
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2004-09-23
- Publisher
- John Wiley & Sons
- Author
- B. Sullivan
Description
The crime of the twenty-first century doesn't discriminate: IDtheft has hit ordinary citizens and celebrities alike, from OprahWinfrey to Steven Spielberg, and costs the economy $50 billion ayear. Your Evil Twin covers this exploding crime from everypossible angle. It includes exclusive whodunit details frommastermind identity thieves who have pilfered money from half themembers of the Forbes 400, as well as exclusive interviews with amyriad of criminals in the Internet's underground, such as Russianhackers who have extorted money from U.S. banks. The book alsoissues a scathing indictment of the credit granting industry, fromcredit card issuers to the secretive credit reporting agencies, whohave misunderstood the crime from the start, have been slow torespond, and bear much of the responsibility for the epidemic.Finally, Bob Sullivan, author and identity theft expert, probes thetepid solutions now being cobbled together by the industry andgovernment. Bob Sullivan (Snohomish, WA), senior technology writer forMSNBC.com, is the nation's leading journalist covering identityfraud. He has written more than 100 articles on the subject since1996, and is a regular contributor to MSNBC, CNBC, NBC NightlyNews, the Today show, and various local NBC affiliates. Withcolleague Mike Brunker, Sullivan received the prestigious 2002Society of Professional Journalists Public Service Award forongoing coverage of Internet fraud.
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