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BT help you find your identity
Posted by: eusty on Tuesday, February 21, 2006 - 09:43 PM
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BT has started flogging it's latest 'add on' and this time they are trying to
protect us against online identity theft. The insurance is named (rather
unoriginally)
BT Identity Protection and covers you for up to £50,000 if your identity
needs restoring. BT claim that's how much is needed to compensate for lost
wages, phone calls and legal fees.
Also if it's required you can get your own personal case worker to help you set
things straight again.
One rather suspect service is credit monitoring so BT can let customers know
if it believes someone is trying to steal their identity, although how many
people would want to turn over personal details to BT remains to be seen.
The service will cost from £44.99 a year, but they are providing a free
service to it's BT Broadband customers called
BT Identity
Support, this (as you might have guessed) gives customers practical online
and offline support and on preventing, detecting and resolving identity theft.
"Identity theft has become a very real threat to all internet users.
One in four people in the UK has been a victim of it or knows someone who
has, and our research shows it's currently costing the UK £1.7 billion
each year."
"It is increasingly important that customers are aware of the online
security threats they may face and use the tools they are provided with to
ensure they continue to have an enjoyable and safe internet experience." |
| Gavin Patterson, group managing director Consumer, BT |
Rumours that BT's next venture will be in competition to the Samaritans are
totally unfounded...
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