This is a bit of a tear jerker - Good religious boy goes off the tracks and becomes a drug dealer, in jail for 15 years where he picks the brains of 900 inmates on all the scams that are out there relating to ID theft. Ray Beasley is living the American dream - he has raised $85,000 and is looking to raise a lot more for his software that will protect against ID theft on pcs and laptops.

My favourite comment is from a guy who invested $5,000 -
“I gave Enron a chance,” says Ray Allen, a retiree who, along with his wife, Martha, invested $5,000 in B System. “Why not him?”"

This is an interesting post how to back up all your data on your mobile using the Nokia Pc Suite.

The major issue I see is you have to plug your phone into your computer and have the right cable handy.

An alternative is Zyb which offers a free online back up service which is quickly morphing into a mobile social networking service.

According to a poll from Bankrate.com 80% of people in the USA are worried about Identity theft.
34% know a victim of identity theft and unsuprisingly they are much more concerned about it.

This concern is slowing the level of ecommerce, of those with Internet, 36 percent say they try to protect themselves from fraud by not shopping on the Internet. Nearly half, 48 percent, avoid online banking.

A genealogy site was used to steal the identity of over 100 dead people in the USA for 3 yeas undetected. Wired report that Tracy June Kirkland, 42, used Rootsweb.com to find names, Social Security numbers and the date of births of deceased people. She then “would randomly call various credit card companies to determine if the deceased individual had an … account,” according to the 15-count indictment (.pdf) filed in federal court in Los Angeles Tuesday.