Fraud 101: Indentity Theft, Fraud, and Internet Scams & Schemes - Softcover

Staff Sergeant Terry Keighley

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1897113714 ISBN 13: 9781897113714

Publisher: General Store Publishing House, 2009

Synopsis

A heads-up for all of us. No one is safe anymore from identity theft and other white-collar crimes. However, there are ways to avoid being a victim, and the author shares them with us in this book.

Says Keighley, I have always been amazed at how simple identity theft is to perpetrate; the tools required are readily available. . . . identity theft is virtually unstoppable, and many of the perpetrators are never detected because . . . they are using your identification.

Title fraud, mortgage fraud, debit and credit card fraud are just a few of the crimes against the public that Keighley has investigated as a security consultant and now writes about. No one, says the author, is safe anymore--not at home, at work, or on holiday. Your personal information, available on your driver s licence, birth certificate, passport, etc., is what criminals are after.

Keighley offers advice on how to protect ourselves in a changing world, how to safeguard our identity, our property, our financial information, our credit cards. He introduces us to telephone and e-mail scams, and his stories are fascinating and horrifying. Pension scams are on the increase as our population ages. This is a book worth having.

About this title

About the Author

Terry Keighley was born in Brantford, Ontario, where he attended Pauline Johnson Collegiate. Keighley served Canada as a member of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police for over twenty-five years. His last ten years were spent at the Toronto Commercial Crime Section, where he retired as a Staff Sergeant. During his RCMP service, Staff Sergeant Keighley received the Long Service Medal.

Staff Sergeant Terry Keighley is a graduate of the University of Toronto and has spent most of his working life dealing with victims of fraudulent practices. Keighley lives in the Greater Toronto Area and works as both a security consultant and a private investigator. He has two daughters, Taija and Katriina, and a son Christian.

Edition details

• Publisher: General Store Publishing House
• Publication date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1897113714
• ISBN 13: 9781897113714
• Binding: Perfect Paperback
• Number of pages: 184