Virtual Identity Theft: Your Worst Nightmare
Thieves love identity theft crimes because they are almost always committed in a 100% hands off manner. Consider that unlike a robber, an identity thief can do such hands off crimes as swipe your credit card data at their job or root through your mail or trash when no one is in the neighborhood. The thief can even work on a computer thousands of miles away where the thief entices you to give up your most secret personal and financial details.
To help you understand just how many tools the online thief has to rob you blind, let’s look at a few:
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Take An Education Break With These Identity Theft Games
Games are a great way to engage people and help them learn things at the same time.Recently, the FTC has taken advantage of this fact to help educate people on identity theft issues in an interactive and fun way with a series of free online games covering many topics related to identity theft.
Are You Identity Theft Proof?
Identity theft is a huge area of crime – one that is growing every year. And it is growing because it is such an easy crime to commit. Most people make it very easy for thieves to gain access to documents that help these thieves forge their identity for gain.
While there are some things you can’t control – like when a huge company database gets hacked – there are a surprising number of things you can control to make yourself virtually identity theft proof.
Below are a series of questions that will help you build an identity theft proof life. If you can answer yes to most of them, you are well on your way to having an impregnable identity.
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What Identity Thieves Do With Your Mail
One of the big doorways to identity theft is both incoming and outgoing mail in your mailbox. It represents a treasure trove of material for perpetrating identity fraud.
But what do they look for? And how do they use it?
Let’s take a look.
Personal Data Identity Thieves Steal From You
Identity theft against your person is often caused by a lack of knowledge of what they are trying to collect. To give you a better understanding, here is a list of many of the bits of data that identity thieves try to get from you for their own financial gain.
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