Would you hand YOUR email address to a stranger?
Posted: Tue May 27, 2014 9:51 pm
Would you hand YOUR email address to a stranger? Social experiment shows how fraudsters can use it to find crucial information about you in just minutes
Bar customers were convinced into writing their email on fake mailing list
Researchers used just email to find out private details about their targets
Within minutes they had access to details about the lives of their 'victims'
Actors then used the information to pretend to be long-lost friends
All were convinced - even though the actors were all complete strangers
Shocking video shows dangers of leaving yourself open to online ID fraud
Comes after eBay revealed details of 145m users were compromised
Watch the video below to find out what happens {Link might not work)
An experiment has shown how easy it is for fraudsters to find out a worrying level of personal information online - using just an email address.
A team of actors set up a mailing list for bar customers, before using their email addresses to research their details online.
Minutes later, they had garnered so much private information on the individuals that they could convince them they had known them for years.
The shocking experiment, captured on video for credit reference agency Experian, shows the dangers of leaving yourself open to online ID fraud.
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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... nutes.html