Your Evil Twin (PDF)

The crime of the twenty-first century doesn't discriminate: ID
theft has hit ordinary citizens and celebrities alike, from Oprah
Winfrey to Steven Spielberg, and costs the economy $50 billion a
year. Your Evil Twin covers this exploding crime from every
possible angle. It includes exclusive whodunit details from
mastermind identity thieves who have pilfered money from half the
members of the Forbes 400, as well as exclusive interviews with a
myriad of criminals in the Internet's underground, such as Russian
hackers who have extorted money from U.S. banks. The book also
issues a scathing indictment of the credit granting industry, from
credit card issuers to the secretive credit reporting agencies, who
have misunderstood the crime from the start, have been slow to
respond, and bear much of the responsibility for the epidemic.
Finally, Bob Sullivan, author and identity theft expert, probes the
tepid solutions now being cobbled together by the industry and
government.

Bob Sullivan (Snohomish, WA), senior technology writer for
MSNBC.com, is the nation's leading journalist covering identity
fraud. He has written more than 100 articles on the subject since
1996, and is a regular contributor to MSNBC, CNBC, NBC Nightly
News, the Today show, and various local NBC affiliates. With
colleague Mike Brunker, Sullivan received the prestigious 2002
Society of Professional Journalists Public Service Award for
ongoing coverage of Internet fraud.