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18-to24-year-olds Most at Risk for ID Theft [A] Ryan Thomas, an airman in the Air Force Honor Guard, bought some DVDs on the Int
18-to24-year-olds Most at Risk for ID Theft [A] Ryan Thomas, an airman in the Air Force Honor Guard, bought some DVDs on the Int
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2017-06-27
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18-to24-year-olds Most at Risk for ID Theft
[A] Ryan Thomas, an airman in the Air Force Honor Guard, bought some DVDs on the Internet using his cash card. It was a $20 payment made from his account, which had about $900. But the following day, his account balance was zero. Someone had stolen his account information and bought computer games and other items. "I didn’t know better about securing your information on the computer," said Thomas. After the incident, Thomas took a class about how to protect information in cyberspace. But last month, he was hit again, this time by someone who targeted his account from Malaysia. Similar identity-theft cases are rising sharply across the country, as young people—sometimes careless about their personal information—are hit the hardest, according to a survey released last month.
[B] Identity fraud can include stealing a credit card number or opening a bank account in someone else’s name. Thieves generally cross state lines in the commission of their crimes and are often linked to rings overseas in places such as Russia and Spain. The young people, ages 18 to 24, is at the greatest risk because it takes them longer to figure out that they have been defrauded—meaning their information is compromised for a longer period, according to the survey, which is a typical scene of the identity fraud landscape from last year.
[C] "The young people don’t protect enough or detect enough," said James Van Dyke, president of Javelin Strategy & Research, a California-based company that examined where identity theft threats are coming from and what effects they are having on consumers. It takes young people an average of 132 days to detect fraud activity on their credit cards, bank accounts and other personal holdings, and those in older age groups average 49 days, the survey shows. When their identities are stolen, the young people are victimized by thieves for an average of about five months.
[D] "The 18-to-24 group is unique. They’re going to college. They’re away from home for the first time. They’re sharing more information. More of their information is exposed," Van Dyke said. "The old stereotype is true that people are sharing information willingly or unwillingly and are waiting until they become a victim to listen to sound advice." Thieves stole $400 from law student Gregory Peltz after he opened a tab at an Ohio dive bar, giving the waiter his cash card for the evening as he rang up drinks. He was shocked when his bank called him days later and told him that someone had withdrawn cash from the account, even without the card. "I felt clueless," said Peltz. He said he would have no problem handing over his cash card again for a night out at a bar—just not the same dive as last time.
[E] Last year, there were an estimated 11.1 million identity fraud victims of all ages, a 12 percent increase from the year before, according to the survey. Thieves stole about $54 billion from them, according to the study, which surveyed 5,000 people nationwide, 703 of whom had been victims of identity theft. Javelin Research, which sells data studies to businesses and consumers, conducts surveys of consumer attitudes and behaviors on a variety of financial matters, including security, risk and fraud. Its most recent identity fraud study found that in addition to well-known methods of thieving such as stealing wallets and credit cards, criminals are increasingly using high-tech methods of stealing.
[F] Among the common schemes: phishing (in which e-mails direct a victim to false Web sites that imitate respectable organizations, including banks), smishing(in which text messages lure a victim into downloading wicked spyware), pharming (in which wicked code on computer sends victims to false Web sites) and keylogging (in which hidden software monitors victims’ keystrokes to collect passwords). When people are victimized with those methods, it’s much harder to detect, often leaving them with no explanation about how their identities were stolen. Only about half of the victims file police reports, the study found.
[G] Identity thieves steal an average of $4,841 per victim, but the end cost to each person is about $373, because banks generally pay back the victims. The study looked at social networking sites such as Facebook and MySpace and found that the young people are compromised more than other groups on the sites but that, in general, the sites account for small percentages of identity theft. Seven percent of young people said their financial information was compromised because of a social networking site, compared with 2 to 4 percent for other age groups. But there’s a warning: About 55 percent of victims never figure out how their information was stolen.
[H] Mary Madden, senior research specialist at the Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project, said 72 percent of the young people use social networking sites daily, compared with 40 percent of adults 30 or older. She said young people share personal information about themselves, whether it is their birth date, phone number or a picture from a party, as a way to nourish relationships.
[I] "You are trading information about yourself as a form of cultural currency," Madden said. "By posting a photo or an update about what you did at a bar last night, you are sharing with friends to have an exchange and continue a friendship." Problems arise, she said, when the information is misused. "It’s an interesting balance they have to strike in deciding how much to share in order to start or maintain a relationship but not overshare with their network," she said.
[J] Madden pointed to studies that show most people can be identified with three pieces of information: their sex, Zip code and date of birth. And seemingly unnamed profiles that catalogue preferences, such as movie lists on Netflix, can also be used to identify users. Adam Morrison, 19, a freshman at Arizona State University, realized that his identity had been stolen a few summers ago when he applied for a job and figured out that someone had been using his Social Security number for his own employment purposes. Morrison’s bank account was not affected, but he remains annoyed about how long the person had been using the Social Security number and how it was stolen. "No idea how he got it," Morrison said.
Young people are hit the hardest in the identity-theft because it takes longer for them to detect fraud activity.
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答案
B
解析
本题讲年轻人容易遭受身份信息被盗的原因,相关信息出现在原文的A段末至C段。其中B段末明确提出原因,因为他们察觉自己被盗所需时间更长,这与本题一致,故本题出处应在B段。
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