Criminals are using mobile accounts to commit identity fraud.
10 September 2009
Consumers are increasingly finding fraudsters to be targeting their mobile phone accounts, it has been shown.
Identity theft involving the devices has risen 74 per cent in the first six months of 2009, compared to the same period last year, according to figures from CIFAS.
The identity fraud prevention service conducted a survey into the practice of mobile phone account takeovers and found 633 cases were reported between January and July.
Commenting, communications manager Richard Hurley explained criminals are finding ways to access existing accounts, rather than creating new credit lines in victims'' names.
He stated it is important to beware of the trend and act against it by protecting details from those who could use them for ill means.
"Take a common sense approach - don''t leave the window to the house of your personal data open and no one can break in," Mr Hurley warned.
Life assistance firm CCP suggested recently that inappropriate or insecure passwords are putting people at risk in a world where phishing, smishing and malware attacks are becoming more commonplace.
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