Interesting Yahoo article..........

[magyar123]

...dealing with financial ID theft.
Among the usual forms of ID theft - mailbox theft, hackers, etc. the article also pointed to the rise of inhouse employee theft of customers' banking information when the customer signs up for automatic payments or even makes a one-time online payment.
While these companies constantly bug you with their "save a stamp" and other buzz words - they do not do enough to monitor their own employees' shady behavior. They might have safeguards against outside computer hackers, but as the article pointed out more and more ID theft is generated from within the company.

[chpxiii]

Whether you put it online and a CSR sees your information via the computer, or you send in your check and payment stub, which a CSR then enters it into, well.. a computer, either way at some point you'll have to hope that the CSR won't steal your information.

Where is the Yahoo article that you are referring to?

[Cassiopeia]

Something interesting I read the other day in an AARP magazine is that ID theft is more likely to take place with PAPER....actually sending a check (or other information about yourself) via the U.S. Postal Service. As opposed to anything online. I've always believed that!