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What do you get when you bring together a roundtable of experts who’ve got their finger on the pulse of fraud trends in the U.S.? A room full of people empowered to protect their identities — and spread the word among friends and colleagues.
Herb Weisbaum, The Consumerman on NBCnews.com, led the “Fast Forward: 2013 Fraud Trends” panel at the Privacy XChange Forum this month. Speakers included Eva Velasquez, CEO of the Identity Theft Resource Center; Steve Reger, director of consumer solutions and fraud victim assistance at TransUnion; Alex Tsetsenekos, vice president and general manager for the home vertical at LexisNexis; and Credit.com contributor Bob Sullivan, a journalist and the author of “Gotcha Capitalism” and “Stop Getting Ripped Off.”
Here are a few trends highlighted:
The key takeaway: Fraudsters and hackers are getting better at what they do, and so should we. “We are so far behind what criminals are innovating,” Sullivan said.
This post originally appeared on IdentityTheft911.
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