What is it doing the government with regard to the trick for Internet?
Answer Wivsa: I can tell you what the U.S. government is doing on this matter. The Federal Trade Commission (FTC), according to its official website (www.ftc.gov/opa/2004/03/scamtestimony.htm), outlines the following measures: The FTC maintains a central clearinghouse of identity theft victims, making the information available to more than 850 criminal and civil enforcement agencies throughout the nation. The testimony says that in 2003, 214,905 complaints were filed in the ID Theft Clearinghouse, about 10 percent of which came from consumers age 60 or older. The FTC refers identity theft cases to criminal authorities because the FTC Act provides no direct criminal law enforcement authority, but the agency also has brought law enforcement actions to stop practices that involve or facilitate identity theft. Our cases have attacked alleged pretexting,’ the use of false pretenses to obtain consumers’ confidential financial information, and phishing,’ the use of spam directing consumers to
