#TheFraudTube Preview: Social Media Links

  • April 23, 2012 00:23

In addition to #TheFraudTube website you can also keep up to date and interact with #TheFraudTube using your chosen social media networks.

Right now you can follow or link with #TheFraudTube using:

  • LinkedIn: Join our LinkedIn group and network with your peers, events and jobs will be posted here as well
  • Facebook: News and events will be posted to our Facebook page
  • Pinterest: News and stories will be pinned here, follow us and we will add you to a shared board
  • Twitter: Got news, tell us about it using hashtag #TheFraudTube. Follow us (@TheFraudTube)
  • Google+: News will be posted here, as Google+ develops we may also host seminars and discussions via hangouts
  • YouTube: Original and reposted video content can be found via our YouTube channel, organised into themed playlists

Shortly after launch additional options for keeping up with news and events will become available, initially including:

  • paper.li: A weekly digest of the most relevant news via #TheFraudTube Echo, plus one off specials following specific events
  • foursquare: Find out where we are reporting from at specific events and then come and meet us!
  • rss feeds: Subscribe to our feeds to keep updated with news, blogs and events

 

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#TheFraudTube Preview: Blogs

  • April 20, 2012 07:39

We are pleased to announce that #TheFraudTube will feature a range of bloggers, all domain experts. Each blog will be updated on a regular basis and you will be able to subscribe via RSS to either all of the blogs or to your chosen individual blogs.

 

 

Our bloggers are:

  • Darren Hodder (@FraudAssist): Notes from the Editor
  • Neira Jones (@NeiraJones): Information security, payments & risk
  • Bennett Arron (@BennettArron): Identity fraud
  • Laurie Beagle: Credit risk and b2b fraud
  • Malcolm Gardner (@gardmal): Public sector fraud
  • Robert Siciliano (@RobertSiciliano): Social media & cybercrime

Introducing Bennett Arron

It Wasn’t Me, It Was Bennett Arron

So, Identity Theft. What is it really? Well, I’m glad you asked. It’s basically when your personal details are used fraudulently to open accounts or obtain documentation in your name. This could result in debts being accumulated, for which you would initially be accountable – until you prove yourself innocent.

ID theft is quite commonplace now, but when it happened to me several years ago, no one really knew much about the crime. I had to convince the Police, as well as all the companies to which I allegedly owed money, that I was me, and not the person pretending to be me.

Someone had used my name to ring up thousands of pounds worth of bad debts. This gave me a bad credit-rating which meant I couldn’t get a mortgage, couldn’t get a credit card and couldn’t open a bank account. I couldn’t even join my local gym as they wouldn’t accept my direct debit – so it wasn’t all bad news….

Read the rest of Bennetts blog along with our other bloggers when #TheFraudTube launches on Tuesday 24th April 2012 

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