Impact on professional life (2)
Although identity theft is rare it does occur using social engineering techniques. This requires for a person to simply call up pretending to be someone else and they could receive details. These details can range from: Name, Addresses all the way to NI Numbers and Credit card details. If another person has this information they can easily commit crimes thus getting someone who is innocent into trouble. The bad thing about this is this method is increasing due to forums on the internet specifically designed for this type of criminal activity. The company can be fooled into giving private information.