About identity thieves

Kimmo Huosionmaa

Identity thieves are very dangerous for the reputation of the corporation. One faked email address can destroy the reputation of the company for a very long time. This is the big thing, what the leaders must know, and they must follow the use and creation of the email addresses. If the wrong person would get the identity as the worker of some company,  that person will make very big damages for the reputation and business for the targeted corporation. This is the reason, why we must understand the threat, what the new kind of business culture creates. If the competitor can slip the agent inside some other corporation, that person can destroy the reputation of the company in seconds.

And this is a big problem. If the company's customer service officer would use bad language and gives answers, what is not correct in business life, that will cause trouble.  Or what do you think about the case, where the merchandise, what is ordered were not send to the customer or the officer would send wrong stuff from the warehouse?

That would be the end of the relationship. There are rumors about the cases, that some corporations have even hired professional internet cheaters or trolls for making a bad reputation for some company. In fact, the motive for destroying the reputation of some company could be revenge, because some person is divorced from the service of the corporation.

And sometimes somebody has stolen the identity of the worker of the company. In some cases the stolen mobile telephone, what is not locked have been given gate to take other persons Facebook or Linkedin account in control. If the person has been used those solutions by using the browser,  the hacker would change the password, if it is in some file in the telephone's memo.  Sometimes the workers of some company have so-called "duty accounts" what are operated by the "social media supervisors".

That kind of accounts are dangerous because the worker would probably don't even care, what the company is doing with that thing, and they have their private accounts for personal use. The problem is that if the passwords and usernames are put with the telephone by using some sellotape. If the worker feels disappointment or that person is cheated in the workplace, would happen that this person doesn't even care, if that telephone is lost. In this case, also the cleaner can take the telephone and looks at the log-in information from those sellotapes. In fact, CIA and GRU are using cleaner corporations for covert operations.

Those workers would get the keys to the office very easily, and then agents can come in, by playing cleaners. During the night time, they can photograph every document and look for every telephone, what is forgotten on the table. Also sometimes the cleaners are mistreated, and this kind of things make them good targets for intelligence recruiters. Those agents just ask them to borrow keys, and why some summer worker would care, who will take those keys, especially if the feedback has been bad? Hate makes people act against normal nature. And the intelligence officials have a good eye to locate the persons, who are so-called "willing targets" to recruitment.