Re: Background Checks for DBAs
- From: "Bill Ferguson" <wbfergus@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: cemail_219@xxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2007 12:25:20 -0700
This background check business seems like the perfect business for some scam
artist to get into. They could "legitimately" obtain all kinds of of
personal data and then redirect the results to some off-shore group that
takes advantage of the information.
Of course, they'd have to cover their rear-ends fairly well, have several
different companies in the biz, only use a few people's identities from each
background check, use people from various geographical locations, etc. Guage
or otherwise rate the people being checked on their likelihood of being a
victim already (due to bad security habits, etc.) and target those people to
decrease the possibilty that it tracks back to them.
Sure seems ripe for abuse.
-- Bill Ferguson
On 2/21/07, J. Dex <cemail_219@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
What they are looking for is the best part of this --
The consent form itself only says "the limited purpose of initiating
security access and system user identification" and then goes on with a
big
disclaimer that the company is not liable for anything and that we are
releasing them of any liability. The company tells us this is common
practice. Don't believe it though.
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