In my last post I discussed about identity theft and the different ways in which it may happen. In this I will tell a story to my readers about identity theft. Few of these stories I read in magazines or net journals and few happened with some of my friends and relatives.

The story that I will be including in this post is not so much scary that few identity fraud may shape into.

It’s about the Memorial blood center scam. This center takes blood on a voluntary basis. Since a huge number of people donates blood here so the personal records of the donors are also kept in the records. The records in the documents of the center contain the respective donors name and the social security numbers. These security numbers can give rise to the frauds to happen. If these numbers comes in the hand of the identity thieves then it can create lots of identity scams. A laptop which contained these records of the donors was stolen from Memorial Blood Centers. Can you imagine what can happen when a laptop with approximately 286000 donors’ records gets stolen!!

In downtown Minneapolis this happened while a blood drives on November 28th. As I said before that this was not a very scary scam because the data was protected with multiple password levels.

Another interesting fact is that the in the downtown of any major city has cameras all around. The same fact shows some light of hope the datas remaining secure. The security cameras for the various businesses in all over the building has records of the theft.