In all the sensational reporting about identity theft and ID fraud over the last few years, the focus has primarily been on the misuse of the victim0s credit cards, the rifling of bank accounts and other financial crimes. However, the charge cards and banking information are not the only proceeds of the crime that the perpetrators value.
The identity itself, with supporting documents, can be infinitely more valuable than a credit card. The credit cards will be reported lost and will be useless minutes after the theft is discovered. Unfortunately, you cannot 0cancel0 your identity, even as someone else starts to use it.
The fact is, much identity theft is just a means to an end for a certain kind of swindler. Often, these are people without solid work or residential histories, no credit rating to speak of and so forth. However, armed with your driver0s license, Social Security card and a little bit of counterfeiting skill (or someone else0s, for a price), someone else can hijack your identity 0 and get a new job with it.
Stolen identities are not the only things that surface when companies do criminal records checks, but they should show up quickly. Among the first things that […]

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