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Why Removing Your Personal Information Online Can Save You Money
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Prevention is the best protection – protect yourself now using Wiperts
More and more people worry about identity theft. When something is stolen, getting it back always takes a lot of effort. Prevention is the best protection against theft. By stopping criminals and companies from profiting off your personal information, you will be better off in the long run. Learn how removing personal information online using Wiperts can help you save money, time, and heartache.
Things you need to know about your personal information online
- Removing your personal information online can save you money
- Websites that profit from your private information
- What criminals do with private information
- How much identity fraud costs victims
In this article we go into depth about your personal information and how it is used and often abused online. Wiperts is a professional company that deals with removing private information from the internet. Our service and expertise are backed by years of experience. Going above and beyond expectations to help you keep your private information where it belongs is our mission. We believe in helping people protect themselves in an era where anything can be publicly shared to the whole wide world in a matter of seconds.
Here at Wiperts, people often ask us about privacy related questions. We’ve done our research and present to you this article – shedding light on these growing concerns helps everyone in these times of digital turbulence.
Websites that profit from your private information
Everyone knows about the big players like Google and Facebook. But there are medium-sized companies that are also in the information trading industry. Websites like Intelius, Spokeo, Whitepages, and many others function as information brokers. These websites usually don’t receive media coverage because they’re costly, and free to use services like Google and Facebook are more financially accessible to a wider demographic. Make no mistake, someone is buying their services, otherwise they would have gone bankrupt a long time ago.
Intelius says it provides search reports that can include phone numbers, address history, date of birth, relatives, and even more. A month of Intelius’ premium search costs $19.95 and features some uncomfortable tools, like the ability to save profiles and add notes. The premium service says it allows unlimited search results and costs less than a background check. Victims of domestic violence, abuse, stalking, and other crimes who don’t want to be found should strongly consider using a service like Wiperts to clean their internet footprints.
Spokeo, a similar website, also offers a month of snooping for $19.95. These kinds of websites include social media content as well. Scraping public posts from Facebook and Google is what these companies do to make a profit. Taking publicly available information, archiving it, and selling it may not be entirely illegal, but it is certainly unnerving.
If you know or are protecting someone who has been a victim of the aforementioned crimes, then you should consider using Wiperts to remove your personal information from the internet, especially if the suspect is still on the streets or will be out of jail soon.
Wiperts does the opposite of Intelius and Spokeo. Instead of helping people find you, Wiperts makes it harder for you to be found. This kind of service is needed in order to counteract companies that spy on people.
Criminals are able to use data brokers without any repercussions. As long as the payment goes through, data brokers will sell information to anyone. Signing up using fake information is easy enough. Data brokers don’t ask who’s buying or for what reason. A sale is a sale to them.
For much less than Spokeo, Intelius, and many other similar websites, Wiperts offers several different plans. Wiperts’ 6-month plan covers one person for $39.99 or two persons for $69.99. The 1-year plan covers one person for $59.99 or two persons for $99.99. Wiperts continuously monitors and removes your information as it reappears online, providing you lasting protection and peace of mind. The two-person plan is highly recommended if you are in a sensitive situation and need to protect more than just yourself. Protecting your significant other from a disgruntled ex or someone who has dementia are just two examples out of many. Wiperts is here to help you protect what you value most.
What criminals do with private information
If you have a loved one that is susceptible to scams, like an elderly parent with an ailment, then preventing scammers from getting their contact information will be a great solution. Scammers rely on social engineering to pry the hearts and wallets of elderly people open. Criminals will act as if they are a close relative to the victim using personal information. After talking to the victim casually, using personal details they found out online, scammers will always ask for money – taking as much as they can each time and then running off with the stolen money when their scam is revealed.
Scammers like to target vulnerable people as much as possible. Even if you help your elderly parent change their phone number and email address, there’s a possibility that their personal information has reappeared online for scammers to abuse again. Keeping vulnerable people and their private information offline is what Wiperts specializes in. How would you feel seeing an elderly family member that has worked for decades lose all of their hard-earned money to a scammer?
Wiperts deals with a wide range of websites and knows how to remove personal information from the internet. Data broker websites are available to criminals and identity fraud is another ill-conceived way to profit from personal information. Fraud is illegal, hard to trace, and consumes a significant amount of time and money. Finding a bundle of personal information online is a blank paycheck for criminals to cash in. Opening new lines of credit fraudulently is ridiculously easy. Sadly, technology has far outpaced current laws regarding credit. Criminals can easily open up new lines of credit and it costs people like you and I millions of dollars each year.
How much identity fraud costs victims
There are people who lose thousands of dollars in time and money because their personal information was abused in some fashion. Compare the loss of thousands of dollars to Wiperts’ services and you’ll immediately agree that prevention is the best protection. It’s faster and cheaper to use Wiperts than to suffer the consequences of fraud.
Identity fraud takes time to carry out. As your private details build up on the internet, data brokers and criminal enterprises collect this data into a sellable package. In real life, your personal information probably fills up a small to medium sized box. However, digital files are extremely small and easy to move with broadband internet.
A small text file listing all your personal information (such as name, address, date of birth, login credentials, etc.) is more than enough to cause you plenty of harm. Practically anything can be converted into digital format. Driver licenses and passports are much harder to forge, but the specific details can easily be written into a text document.
Most transactions are done over the phone or online, meaning that the physical copy might not be as important as it used to be. As long as the information checks out, whoever’s on the other end of the phone will probably assume that the physical copy is within reach or memorized. This is not good for you – it’s good for big companies and criminals. Companies are eager to receive money no matter where it comes from and criminals are always happy to spend what’s not theirs.
Asking a potential customer to hold up a picture ID next to their face and take/submit a selfie is often too much trouble for companies to deal with. If it’s not legally required, they usually don’t bother. Some apps have been implementing this security feature, but it’s not standard procedure yet. Going through a few more steps to spend large amounts of money should be the new norm, but it’ll take legislative action to implement such requirements.
Here’s another frustrating example of how credit card companies refuse to implement fraud prevention methods: Printing a small photo of the cardholder on credit cards would prevent and deter a lot of fraud, but credit card companies decided to go with imbedded chips. The chips promise a lot of new features and boast robust security, but the cardholder name, credit card number, card expiration date, and security code on the back haven’t changed at all. The more things change, the more they stay the same.
Abusing credit only takes a bare minimum of personal information. As long as a criminal can successfully convince the salesperson on the other end to make a sale (which is not very hard), then the criminal can receive goods and services using your credit. According to Forbes, on average, identity theft costs about $500 per person to fix. This is far more expensive than using Wiperts to remove your personal information from Google and other websites. Save yourself time and money – consult Wiperts today.
