Pretexting Resources
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) provides information to protect America's consumers. The FTC Web site provides facts about pretexting and how to prevent the theft of telephone records, Social Security numbers, and bank and credit card account numbers.
ID Theft provides information to the consumer about identity theft and how pretexting is used to gain access to personal information. The site defines pretexting as "the practice of getting your personal information under false pretenses."
PI magazine, a journal for investigators, discusses the use of pretexting during the course of an investigation. The Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act made pretexting illegal in 1999, punishable under federal statues.
GovTrack.us monitors developments made by the U.S. Congress. The site provided information about H.R. 4709: Telephone Records and Privacy Protection Act of 2006 which takes aim at stopping the use of pretexting to gain personal information from phone records.
Be Spacific provides information about developing law and technology news. The site provides information regarding the Federal Trade Commissions privacy rules which recently started requiring telephone and wireless carriers to increase the security around phone records. The rules are aimed at preventing the use of pretexting to gain personal information.
Tech Republic provides information on the Federal Communication Commission's (FCC) efforts at stopping identity theft and preventing the practice of pretexting. The FCC will now require telephone and wireless operators to instate additional safeguards around phone records.
The United States House of Representatives provides a video on the hearing conducted to combat pretexting. Panel members discussed the proposed bill H.R. 936: the Prevention of Fraudulent Access to Pone Records Act.
Dictionary.com provides definitions for the word pretex (alternative verb form pretexting). The definition is provided by the American Heritage Dictionary and states that pretex is "An effort or strategy intended to conceal something."
The Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) published the testimony of Marc Rotenberg who is the Executive Director of the center. Mr. Totenberg spoke to the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation about preventing pretexting and protecting the privacy of phone records.
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