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Story: Companies warned over corporate identity theft

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I don't believe the banks gave out email addresses as we received 'bank' letters from two banks we don't even use. The more irritating factor in all this is that we are again being punished for being law abiding by feeling forced to spend on additional domain names to prevent fraud. A certain amount of 'training' in internet use is advisable but why should the people who are providing a service be forced to try and install common sense into its users. As long as people are gulible enough to fall for these scams despite numerous warnings, the only thing more pressure on the companies providing the information will do is pressure them into reducing the information available to prevent it getting into the wrong hands. We are taught not to trust people turning up at the door asking questions, why should email be any more trusted when asking suspicious questions.

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