{"id":249,"date":"2006-05-14T10:09:06","date_gmt":"2006-05-14T10:09:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/irdial.com\/blogdial\/?p=249"},"modified":"2006-05-14T10:18:07","modified_gmt":"2006-05-14T10:18:07","slug":"the-cash-for-fake-id-scandal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/irdial.com\/blogdial\/?p=249","title":{"rendered":"The cash-for-fake-ID scandal"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Civil servants have sold the personal details of hundreds of thousands of<br \/>\npeople to criminal gangs<br \/>\nBy Francis Elliott and Sophie Goodchild<br \/>\nPublished: 14 May 2006<\/p>\n<p>An internal investigation at the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has found that civil servants are colluding with organised criminals to steal personal identities on &#8220;an industrial scale&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Ministers have been privately warned that the investigation will show that hundreds of thousands of stolen personal details have been ripped off from official databases, often with inside help. Key personal details such as national insurance numbers can be used to commit benefit fraud, set up false bank accounts and obtain official documents such as passports.<\/p>\n<p>The ID theft from DWP and Revenue and Customs databases is currently the subject of an internal investigation, codenamed Trident, carried out in conjunction with the Government&#8217;s official data-protection watchdog.<\/p>\n<p>One government figure said: &#8220;We have been told that DWP staff have been colluding with organised criminals to commit identity theft on an industrial scale. It is far wider than just tax credits <strong>and reaches right across Whitehall<\/strong>.&#8221; [&#8230;]<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/news.independent.co.uk\/uk\/politics\/article447792.ece\">Independent on Sunday<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>My emphasis. And don&#8217;t let anyone tell you that the biometric aspect of the NIR will prevent this fraud. All that will happen is that they will take your biometrics and substitute them for the identity that you are buying. What the NIR does is put everyones ID in one place so that these people can fleece <em>everyone<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>If you dont enter the NIR, that scenario does not apply to you of course.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Civil servants have sold the personal details of hundreds of thousands of people to criminal gangs By Francis Elliott and Sophie Goodchild Published: 14 May 2006 An internal investigation at the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has found that civil servants are colluding with organised criminals to steal personal identities on &#8220;an industrial scale&#8221;. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[34],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/irdial.com\/blogdial\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/irdial.com\/blogdial\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/irdial.com\/blogdial\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irdial.com\/blogdial\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irdial.com\/blogdial\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=249"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/irdial.com\/blogdial\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/irdial.com\/blogdial\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irdial.com\/blogdial\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irdial.com\/blogdial\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}