One of the fastest growing crimes in the United States today is identity theft. It is estimated that this year approximately 6 million identity theft crimes will occur in varying degrees. These types of crimes may be anything from borrowing your photos from Facebook or MySpace pages and using it to create some form of identification, to altering it in astounding ways and setting up a new website; to making purchases and obtaining credit with your personal, financial and credit information.
Social networking sites, such as MySpace, Facebook and others are some of the most popular uses of the internet right now. People use it to promote bands, businesses, people and just staying in touch. However, there are some pitfalls with so much easily accessible personal information in one place.
On social networking sites information that may seem inconsequential may like hitting the 0jackpot0 to an identity thief. I was able to find out where a college aged man lived, what school he went to, his birth date and what his plans are for the Christmas holidays; all within a matter of moments. Give me about 10 more minutes and I would probably be able to find out enough information to be […]

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