Research "Digital Identity Theft"
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Digital Identity Theft
Digital Identity Theft
Shazmara Synon
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Joseph Ausan
301186472
Rosalie Japson
301186466
Jewhara Negash
301052394
GNED 190 – 001
Growing Up Digital - Living & Working in Canada
Professor Cassandra Poley
Centennial College
November 6, 2021
TOPIC: Digital Identity Theft
The topic chosen by our group for this presentation is Digital Identity Theft. Digital Identity Theft is a
growing epidemic. It is a crime that occurs when an individual’s confidential information is stolen and
exploited from a fraudster. An individual’s stolen information could be used by a fraudster to gain credit
products, attaining government benefits, take over bank and social media accounts, etc. (Seghar &
Zukarnain, 2021)
APPROACH:
Our approach to this presentation is to first introduce our group and define our topic. Following this we will
look at the history of Digital Identity Theft. Then, we will explore how digital identity theft occurs. We also
think that it is important to mention the laws placed to protect our identity and the punishments for suspects
of digital identity theft. We will include this information from the website
https://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/annualstatutes/2009_28/FullText.html. (SOMEONE CITE THIS) This
information will advise us to educate ourselves and our peers on keeping information confidential as
possible. We will also provide facts and statistics of digital identity theft. We will take a look at a case study
of a Roman Seleznev, a Russian digital identity theft suspect (Galford, 2017). Following this we will look at
additional prominent cases of digital identity theft. One of them will be provided in a video called Online
Identity Victim: Digital thief stole my face about a fraudster who stole a man’s digital identity to con women.
(CNN, 2015). This video is from the website CNN. We will conclude our presentation by exploring
preventions of being a victim of digital identity theft. Finally, we will end our presentation with a discussion
question that asks is the internet really safe and should we continue using it?
GROUP CONTRACT
Group Member #1 Shazmara Synon - Research on how Digital Identity Theft occurs - Summarizing case study Roman Seleznev - PowerPoint/Edit Presentation Video
Group Member #2 Joseph Ausan - Statistics and facts about Digital Identity Theft - -
Group Member #3 ____________________________________________ - - -
Group Member #4 ____________________________________________ - - -
Group Member #5 ____________________________________________ - - -
BIBLIOGRAPHY
A/P Sinnathamby Sehgar, S.; Zukarnain, Z.A. Online Identity Theft, Security Issues, and Reputational Damage. Preprints 2021, 2021020082 (doi: 10.20944/preprints202102.0082.v1).
Galford, C. (2017, September 13). Russian hacker pleads guilty in $50 million online identity theft case. Homeland Preparedness News.
https://homelandprepnews.com/stories/24160-russian-hacker-pleads-guilty-50-million-online-identi ty-theft-case/
YouTube. (2015). Online identity victim: Digital theif stole my face. Retrieved November 6, 2021, from
