IDENTITY THEFT

Bennett now performs a one-man show based on this event in his life. He perfomed the show, It Wasn't Me, It Was Bennett Arron at the Edinburgh Festival for what was meant to be a short ten day run. However, due to the overwhelming response and excellent reviews (Kafka-esque... Hilarious' The Standard; 'Fascinating... comedic invention and excellence ****' Chortle) the run was extended.

As a result of the show, Bennett was asked to direct and present a documentary on Identity Fraud. In the programme, Bennett proved, through a series of stunts, how easy the crime of ID Theft is to carry out.

Bennett had planned on taking his findings to the Home Office in the hope that changes would be made to the system. However when his meeting was cancelled and not rescheduled, he had to take desperate measures to prove his point. He therefore set out, and succeeded, in stealing the identity of the then Home Secretary, Charles Clarke. He was subsequently arrested...

                            


Bennett's documentary How To Steal an Identity was Pick of the Week by most of the major Press and he was shortlisted for a Best Director BAFTA. You can watch the documentary online by clicking here



CORPORATE EVENTS

Bennett has performed his show at corporate events all around the country as well as the International Fraud Conventions in Rome and Turin and the International Congress On Anti-Fraud & Anti-Corruption in Poland. He was the Opening Keynote Speaker at Auscert in Queensland, Australia.

Bennett has been called…
'A Welsh Seinfeld' by The Guardian
'Genuinely Original and Funny' by The Times and
‘Case Number 2477419’ by The Metropolitan Police.

To book for a Corporate event please email: bennett@bennettarron.com




TESTIMONIALS AND QUOTES

I wanted to relay both our gratitude and your scores from the Summit. Firstly just thanks for taking the time, effort and energy to work with us and present to our audience – you may have noticed at the time but our audience loved your presentation. The chair of the Summit, was at one point wiping tears from his eyes. Having your participation directly contributes to the overall results of the event and the good feeling everyone took away with them. You’ll be pleased to know that this year, with your help, we achieved the highest satisfaction score ever on the European IAM Summit – thank you! In terms of your results, you did very well indeed. You achieved 4.86 as the content score and as the 4.95 ‘speaker’ score. To put this in context, that’s the highest scores of any speaker at this event and among the top scores at any of our events in the past two years – you’re the highest scoring individual ever on this particular event.

Comments received from the audience included the following:
- Fantastic!
- Very appropriate!
- Thank you very much for this excellent different presentation.

Naturally I really hope you feel good about this. I loved the way you let a serious point seep into everyone’s minds through your story without ever lecturing or spelling out a ‘moral’. It was one of the most well-composed and in some ways subtle ways of making an important point that I’ve ever seen. 
Nick Soulsby, Product Manager, EMEA Events, Gartner


Dear Bennett, I  would personally, and on behalf UK & Ireland, like to extend our appreciation and thanks for making our Focus Event a great success. Your preparation and investment in the event is much appreciated and your presentation was so funny but peppered with all the seriousness that comes with Identity Theft that is struck just the right balance. The feedback is all positive, and I am so pleased that we had you come and speak at our event. Everybody loved you and want to see more of you, so that must be a good sign!
Jacqueline de Rojas, VP United Kingdom & Ireland, McAfee International Ltd  


Talking about identity theft to an audience of Information Assurance professionals might have been seen as a bit of a challenge,  but capturing  our full attention from the start Bennett  delivered one of the best, funniest after dinner speeches we have ever had at our annual conference.
As security professionals we are only too aware of the problem of identity theft, but Bennett’s open, self-effacing and humorous description of his plight highlighted just how broken and yet totally inflexible the process is for creating and then cancelling false accounts set up with service suppliers. Everyone was laughing at and empathising with Bennett as he told how he struggled to take back his stolen identity.
SBL Secretariat, 2013 IA Practitioners’ Conference


Bennett gave a fantastic presentation. With a diverse workforce of many different nationalities his thought provoking talk was of much value and helped staff understand the importance of protecting their information and the true extent of how identity theft can cause so much damage.
Katie Barber,  Security Training & Awareness Coordinator, London Organising Committee of the Olympic Games and Paralympic Games Ltd


Your presentation was the highlight at our IT security conference in Australia with 1000 delegates. I was pleased with how much positive feedback I received from the delegates, so I’m glad we chose you to be our opening keynote speaker. It set the mood for the following 3 days of conference presentations. You were entertaining, engaging and funny. 
Claire Groves, AusCERT Conference Chair


You brought a welcome realism to the consequences and frustrations of falling victim to identity fraud while at the same time avoiding making this a tale of woe. By combining humour and storytelling flair you achieved the seemingly impossible; making financial fraud entertaining!
Owen Roberts, Head of Callcredit Check, Callcredit Limited


I’d like to thank you on behalf of the Enterprise Privacy Group and everyone at last week’s Members’ Forum for your hilarious, insightful and touching story of your identity theft experiences. Your audience of privacy and identity professionals, which included some of the country’s leading authorities on the topic, were shocked at the story, since it is rarely they get to hear first-hand accounts of identity theft, but all of them commented on how amusing and well-delivered the story was.
Toby Stevens, Director, Enterprise Privacy Group Ltd


Your terrible experience as a victim of identity theft combined with your talent as a comedian enabled you to put a serious message to an audience in a very engaging, entertaining and informing way.
Jim Hodgkins, Managing Director, CreditExpert, Experian


I would like to express our thanks and appreciation for accepting our invitation and delivering a presentation during the VII International Congress on Internal Control, Audit, Anti-Fraud and Anti-Corruption Issues. Your excellent presentation won recognition among both participants and other speakers. I do hope we will have the honour to also have you as a guest and speaker next year, at the VIII International Congress in Krakow, Poland.
Edmund J Saunders CFE, FCIB, C.Dip,A.F., President of ACFE Poland Chapter and President of PIKW (Polish Institute of Internal Control and Audit)

 
Bennett Arron's tale of identity theft was one of the talking points of the conference.
Computerworld