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Selftrade partners with Garlik to provide greater identity theft and fraud protection to customers
London – 8th February, 2010. Garlik, the online identity experts, have today announced a partnership with Selftrade (www.selftrade.co.uk) one of the UK's largest execution-only stockbrokers. By working with Garlik, Selftrade will be the first online broker to offer identity protection services to its customers in the form of two services: Selftrade Identity Monitor Lite and a full version of Selftrade Identity Monitor. The new Lite service will be offered free of charge to all Selftrade customers with the option of upgrading to the full Identity Monitor service at a discounted introductory price of £35 per year. The service will help Selftrade customers to protect their financial, personal and sensitive information from the risk of identity theft and financial fraud.
Garlik
2/8/10
Garlik advises consumers to be cautious when using WiFi Services
Over recent years the convenience of open WiFi services in coffee shops, on trains and in airports has helped to make consumers' lives easier. Getting online to browse information, look up directions for meetings or perhaps check emails on the go has never been easier but the simplicity of these services doesn’t necessarily mean that they are secure. Garlik has found that consumers can fall victim to identity theft and fraud as criminals hack into user accounts to obtain personal information, email addresses, passwords and even financial details that they can later abuse.
Garlik
10/29/09
Garlik DataPatrol offers UK residents protection against postal redirect fraud
The Royal Mail Redirect is a valuable and convenient service that protects consumers when they move home. But as CIFAS (www.cifas.org.uk) and Experian both highlighted this week, Identity Theft victims are at real risk from "current" and "forwarding" address fraud. This is where criminals use fraudulent postal redirections to either gain access to the victims post at their current address or use a false new address claiming the victim has recently moved home.
Garlik
10/16/09
Garlik’s 2009 cybercrime report now out – Credit Crunch fuels growth in cybercrime
This particular report is the third consecutive UK Cybercrime Report published by Garlik in an attempt to illuminate the so-called ‘dark figure’ of cybercrime.
The report, which analyses publicly available data to build a comprehensive view of cybercrime in the UK, revealed that during 2008 cybercriminals adapted to the social and economic changes in the UK to exploit victims in new ways and commit over 3.6 million criminal acts online (that’s over one every 10 seconds). In addition, the researchers believe that there is a growing complacency amongst consumers, demonstrating poor understanding of their responsibility to protect their personal information against fraud.
Garlik
9/24/09
The Sky’s The Limit for Garlik’s DataPatrol
Garlik, the online identity experts, have today announced a partnership with Sky to incorporate the DataPatrol service into Sky’s Identity Patrol package. With a monthly subscription of £4.50 or annual subscription of £45.00, Sky will be offering Sky Identity Patrol to all of its customers in the UK, encouraging them to proactively protect their financial, personal and sensitive information from the risk of identity theft and financial fraud.
Garlik
9/15/09
Online Gaming Provides £Multi-million Backdoor to Identity Theft
Over 1.3 Million Online Gaming Logins Stolen Each Year. New research by the online identity experts, Garlik, has found that cybercriminals are targeting a variety of online gaming and virtual world logins, fraudulently generating as much as £4.5 million a year. The research, which assessed the illegal trading of login and account data across online gaming platforms such as Microsoft Xbox, Sony Playstation and World of Warcraft, reveals that these logins can provide instant access to online gamers personal details and financial information.
Garlik
6/22/09
