Several times, using his skill of disguise, dre ed in a prison guards uniform utilized two ladders c
Several times, using his skill of disguise, dre ed in a prison guards uniform utilized two ladders carried acro the yard and when a ot light hit him he yelled out, Its ok and continued his escape without incident. Later, Sutton attributed the famous quote of Thats Where The Money Is to an inventive reporter embellishing a story. It was surmised that he had stolen around $2,000,000 over his career. Later on accountants would use this theory to focus on high cost areas as a target for savings. It was called the Willie Sutton Rule following where the money is as its basis. While serving a long prison term after his capture in 1952 and was serving a 105 sentence. With failing health, he was released in 1969 from Attica State Prison and died November 2, 1980 at age 79 in ring Hill, Florida. His legacy lives on.
Today, Willie Sutton, just arriving fresh out of the time machine, could be sitting in his home perha in his underwear with a wry smile that this new game was really better than any bank job. With hands read between the keyboard and mouse with a bent on Philsing and stealing as much money as po ible online. A cold one would be close by with a tasty ack. These bank teller windows are open 365 days 24 hours a day, their motto might be We never close. No more casing future jo , no need for cleaver disguises, no need to carry a gun, no get away car, no threat of shoot outs, no following opening and closing times of the bank, all that is needed is an Internet co ection and a computer. What a country!
There are many modern day Willie Sutto out there trying to separate citize from their hard earned money. It is likewise a worldwide ro ery in progre from the cafs from New Deli, from the depths of Asia or from anywhere in the world where anyone in cyber ace is a potential target for being fleeced of their money. Scams and co umer alerts go from low tech to major firewall crashing and intervention.
From Dum ter diving looking for your personal information to all sorts of scams. Identity theft is one of the fastest growing crimes in the U.S. today. The con artists are skilled at putting together believable scripts and stories that will play well to the u u ecting pigeon. The mark wakes up only after their bank accounts have been cleaned out or their credit cards maxed out.
The Identity Theft Resource Center is a non-profit organization dedicated to a isting citize in fighting scams. Some of the scams are summarized below:
Job Scams where you are asked to provide personal information including dates of birth and Social Security numbers. Some enterprising co posted employment ads to get a licants to share personal information that can be exploited. No job exists-the con is on.
Calls from credit card Representatives to verify unusual purchases and to verify your card by sharing the three-digit number code on the back of the card. This conversation follows after a lengthy discu ion on avoiding credit card scam. It is the scam. They already have your credit card number from other sources, only now they need the additional key to gate of your money.
Phisher scams involving using web page similar to your financial i titution or co umer retail store looking (logos and all) for pa words and personal information with Social Security numbers. This could be E-Bay, Best Buys, Discover, AOL, M , Earthlink, PayPal, and Bank of America, Providian and other banks such as Wells Fargo.
Sign In Rosters at schools and such where you list your Social Security and other personal information that can be ri ed off by any eyeball noting the information.
The famous Nigerian scam asking you to help them move money out of the country with a big reward to the facilitator. This total fraud has fleeced many citize of their door.
The Canadian/Netherlands Lottery touting that hey YOU WON. The new anish Lottery is now hot as well. Naturally, you will be asked to post some cash as good faith.
Promises of Free Credit Reports can be a scam with bills and such showing up later OR your information is utilized for a fleece job.
Offers of a FREE GIFT will usually lead to costing you as you share your information.
E mailing and forwarding Chain Letters hel the con collect your friends and contacts e-mail addre es to fleece them as well.
Offers to buy a CD on skip tracing someone anywhere is utilized to gather your credit card information that can be later used to rip you off.
Questio aires are a good device to gather personal information for Bad Purposes where Chat rooms for friends is a slick method to gather information on citize . Wont you be my friend?
Perso in acting as store security scams to catch a bad employee all the while noting the personal information of the target of identity theft.
Charities on the phone, who are skilled at raising money, call and prey on the good nature of the donors. Many times the charities get like 5% or le of monies collected plus your information is used to commit a later Fraud. A Do Not Call Verification representative calls to get verify personal information. This is done online or by mail, if ever.
A person gets a call from a clerk of the court regarding jury duty while verifying personal information. Again this is a scam. Normally, jury duty is noted by mail.
Additional scams are referred to as:
Disaster relief, FTC Warning Registry, IRS Scam, Ho ital Perso el, Pay Pal Verification-Phony, Credit Reporting Agencies ploy, Get Out Of Debt e-mail, and any new wrinkle with larceny in the hearts of the perpetrators of Identify Theft Scam.
When conducting online busine one must be very careful with personal and private information that can be turned around and used to the perpetrators advantage to screw the co umer. It is not limited to just the U.S. as mentioned, it is now a worldwide effort to pull a scam. With the U.S. being heavily wired on the Internet with good financial depth co umers are a focused target for exploitation.
Willie Sutton today would have a huge callous on his mouse hand with all the clicks and aming nece ary to separate the mark from their money. The mantra of Thats where the money is has shifted to a new paradigm with a focus on identify theft through low tech and high tech mea to rob people of their money by various mea . The new Willie Sutto of the world is dedicated to this venture and a co umer must be very careful in throwing around personal information. The difference in bank ro eries of the past by Slick Willie is that in this case co umers credit histories can be destroyed and ruptured requiring years to recover. Families can be destroyed, divorces ha en, bankruptcy can e ue and the dark hole of identify theft is entered. It is a destructive force in our country. Better safe guards and protectio are needed to solve this sometimes-heartbreaking crime. Breaking through firewalls and setting up shop on personal computers to steal pa words and establish a base to am the scam to other u u ecting co umers. Awarene and good set of radar ante ae are a good first line of defe e. It its too good to be trueyou already know.
Dale Rogers
www.brokencredit.com
Today, Willie Sutton, just arriving fresh out of the time machine, could be sitting in his home perha in his underwear with a wry smile that this new game was really better than any bank job. With hands read between the keyboard and mouse with a bent on Philsing and stealing as much money as po ible online. A cold one would be close by with a tasty ack. These bank teller windows are open 365 days 24 hours a day, their motto might be We never close. No more casing future jo , no need for cleaver disguises, no need to carry a gun, no get away car, no threat of shoot outs, no following opening and closing times of the bank, all that is needed is an Internet co ection and a computer. What a country!
There are many modern day Willie Sutto out there trying to separate citize from their hard earned money. It is likewise a worldwide ro ery in progre from the cafs from New Deli, from the depths of Asia or from anywhere in the world where anyone in cyber ace is a potential target for being fleeced of their money. Scams and co umer alerts go from low tech to major firewall crashing and intervention.
From Dum ter diving looking for your personal information to all sorts of scams. Identity theft is one of the fastest growing crimes in the U.S. today. The con artists are skilled at putting together believable scripts and stories that will play well to the u u ecting pigeon. The mark wakes up only after their bank accounts have been cleaned out or their credit cards maxed out.
The Identity Theft Resource Center is a non-profit organization dedicated to a isting citize in fighting scams. Some of the scams are summarized below:
Job Scams where you are asked to provide personal information including dates of birth and Social Security numbers. Some enterprising co posted employment ads to get a licants to share personal information that can be exploited. No job exists-the con is on.
Calls from credit card Representatives to verify unusual purchases and to verify your card by sharing the three-digit number code on the back of the card. This conversation follows after a lengthy discu ion on avoiding credit card scam. It is the scam. They already have your credit card number from other sources, only now they need the additional key to gate of your money.
Phisher scams involving using web page similar to your financial i titution or co umer retail store looking (logos and all) for pa words and personal information with Social Security numbers. This could be E-Bay, Best Buys, Discover, AOL, M , Earthlink, PayPal, and Bank of America, Providian and other banks such as Wells Fargo.
Sign In Rosters at schools and such where you list your Social Security and other personal information that can be ri ed off by any eyeball noting the information.
The famous Nigerian scam asking you to help them move money out of the country with a big reward to the facilitator. This total fraud has fleeced many citize of their door.
The Canadian/Netherlands Lottery touting that hey YOU WON. The new anish Lottery is now hot as well. Naturally, you will be asked to post some cash as good faith.
Promises of Free Credit Reports can be a scam with bills and such showing up later OR your information is utilized for a fleece job.
Offers of a FREE GIFT will usually lead to costing you as you share your information.
E mailing and forwarding Chain Letters hel the con collect your friends and contacts e-mail addre es to fleece them as well.
Offers to buy a CD on skip tracing someone anywhere is utilized to gather your credit card information that can be later used to rip you off.
Questio aires are a good device to gather personal information for Bad Purposes where Chat rooms for friends is a slick method to gather information on citize . Wont you be my friend?
Perso in acting as store security scams to catch a bad employee all the while noting the personal information of the target of identity theft.
Charities on the phone, who are skilled at raising money, call and prey on the good nature of the donors. Many times the charities get like 5% or le of monies collected plus your information is used to commit a later Fraud. A Do Not Call Verification representative calls to get verify personal information. This is done online or by mail, if ever.
A person gets a call from a clerk of the court regarding jury duty while verifying personal information. Again this is a scam. Normally, jury duty is noted by mail.
Additional scams are referred to as:
Disaster relief, FTC Warning Registry, IRS Scam, Ho ital Perso el, Pay Pal Verification-Phony, Credit Reporting Agencies ploy, Get Out Of Debt e-mail, and any new wrinkle with larceny in the hearts of the perpetrators of Identify Theft Scam.
When conducting online busine one must be very careful with personal and private information that can be turned around and used to the perpetrators advantage to screw the co umer. It is not limited to just the U.S. as mentioned, it is now a worldwide effort to pull a scam. With the U.S. being heavily wired on the Internet with good financial depth co umers are a focused target for exploitation.
Willie Sutton today would have a huge callous on his mouse hand with all the clicks and aming nece ary to separate the mark from their money. The mantra of Thats where the money is has shifted to a new paradigm with a focus on identify theft through low tech and high tech mea to rob people of their money by various mea . The new Willie Sutto of the world is dedicated to this venture and a co umer must be very careful in throwing around personal information. The difference in bank ro eries of the past by Slick Willie is that in this case co umers credit histories can be destroyed and ruptured requiring years to recover. Families can be destroyed, divorces ha en, bankruptcy can e ue and the dark hole of identify theft is entered. It is a destructive force in our country. Better safe guards and protectio are needed to solve this sometimes-heartbreaking crime. Breaking through firewalls and setting up shop on personal computers to steal pa words and establish a base to am the scam to other u u ecting co umers. Awarene and good set of radar ante ae are a good first line of defe e. It its too good to be trueyou already know.
Dale Rogers
www.brokencredit.com
