Sunday, September 19, 2010

Special investigation: It took just one hour for internet experts to find out almost every private detail of this woman's life

Steve Boggan challenged web experts to see how much they could discover about his partner. The results were chilling...


As I sit writing this, I am feeling vaguely grubby — guilty even — in the way a neurotic husband might after hiring a gumshoe to go trawling through his wife’s secrets.

There is a 15-page report in front of me chronicling virtually every aspect of my girlfriend’s life: past and present.

That includes her friends, education, embarrassing pictures, former boyfriends and long-forgotten relatives.


Much of the information is new to me. And the uses to which it could be put — uses I hadn’t dreamt of until this week — are chilling.

Armed with this information, criminals could use her identity to commit fraud or resurrect minute details of her past, her movements and friendships to lure her into scams or even dangerous liaisons.

It could be used to con her into revealing her bank details and credit card numbers.



Read more: http://www.mailonsunday.co.uk/news/article-1310965/Special-Investigation-It-took-just-hour-internet-experts-private-womans-life.html

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