Urgent warning issued to people selling their identities online
According to a fraud prevention service, he said that the people who sell their own identities were “a worrying tendency ..
The sale of identities is generally responsible for loans or credit received by criminals in the hope of financial award.
Members of Banking, Retail, Insurance and Telekom organs containing fraud prevention service CIFAS, January and June 2025 identity fraud suspected of more than 118,000 cases recorded, he said.
He said that the ongoing threat was worse by AI (Artificial Intelligence), synthetic identities and fabrication profiles that could skip security controls.
He emphasized concerns about the promise of people sometimes selling their own identities and the promise of attractive financial opportunities.
However, by accessing criminals to legitimate identity information, the CIFAs face the risk of risking the debts created by others in their own names.
Cifas, who published the latest fraud report, said that criminals use advanced AI to create false identities, create documents and jump with “anxious accuracy”.
That identity fraud risks spread to various sectors, including identity theft in false practices and motor insurance; Mobile Account Transfers; And the cultivation of gambling, including criminals who abuse the identity of the deceased people.
CIFAS said that there was an increase in cases including employees who make fraud against employers, and that organizations hidden the background information to secure the roles of more employees.
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CIFAS, without the knowledge or consent of people’s employers – employers’ knowledge or consent of the secret “multi -co -operation”, where a large number of work or roles play a permanent threat to employers, he said.
The fraud report showed that more than 217,000 fraud risks were recorded by CIFAS members from January to June 2025 to the National Fraud Database (NFD).
CIFAS CEO Mike Haley said: “Fraud is a national emergency – and it has made it more sophisticated and difficult to detect the AI threat by charging super. No sector, business or individual is immune.
“To combat this rapidly changing danger, requires urgent, coordinated action through inter -sectors cooperation and sharing of data and intelligence. We can only stay in front of criminals and protect the damage of organizations and people.”
