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iJack
Last modified: Wednesday, September 06, 2006
(1) The term used to describe the theft of
laptop computers
when the perpetrator literally grabs the laptop out of the owner's hand and runs
away with it.
(2) The theft of personal information to assume an identity and
commit fraud. As defined by Intersections Inc., iJacking is an emotionally
devastating crime that drains your accounts, hurts your reputation and leaves
you financially paralyzed when thieves assume your identity or use your Social
Security number to commit fraud crimes.
iJacked Call it an iJacking: a street-level strong-arm robbery of computer gadgetry. In the past few months, the Western Addition has, in the words of a recent SFPD neighborhood bulletin, "been plagued by this type of crime with very few arrests."
