Description
Book SynopsisThe crime of the twenty-first century doesn''t discriminate: ID theft has hit ordinary citizens and celebrities alike, from Oprah Winfrey to Steven Spielberg, and costs the economy $50 billion a year. Your Evil Twin covers this exploding crime from every possible angle. It includes exclusive whodunit details from mastermind identity thieves who have pilfered money from half the members of the Forbes 400, as well as exclusive interviews with a myriad of criminals in the Internet''s underground, such as Russian hackers who have extorted money from U.S. banks. The book also issues a scathing indictment of the credit granting industry, from credit card issuers to the secretive credit reporting agencies, who have misunderstood the crime from the start, have been slow to respond, and bear much of the responsibility for the epidemic. Finally, Bob Sullivan, author and identity theft expert, probes the tepid solutions now being cobbled together by the industry and government.
Bob Sullivan
Table of ContentsForeword ix
Preface xiii
Acknowledgments xix
1 CEOs in My Closet 1
2 The Pain 35
3 The “Miracle” of Instant Credit 63
4 The Trial 91
5 The Document Problem 122
6 Where Are the Cops? 141
7 There Ought to Be a Law 167
8 The Internet’s Role 194
9 The Heroes 228
10 What Now? 256
Appendix 277
Notes 284
Index 309
