Identity theft is when a thief steals another person’s identity for the purpose of using it to obtain financial resources or to commit a crime under an assumed name. Credit card fraud is the most common type of identity theft.
How Identity Thieves Work
* Gleaning information from a person’s trash or stealing their mail.
* Gaining data from thrown away computers or files.
* Obtaining personal information from government websites, the internet or private company files.
* Stealing personal belongs such as wallets or handbags.
* Stealing information from a credit card by skimming it through a card reader.