I do not have all the answers to the identity theft crisis we are faced with everyday. However, I have learned that "knowledge is power" and the more knowledge we have on the way identity thieves work, the more power we have to fight back and protect ourselves. I have built a new website that I call Answers to Identity Theft. There you will find information to build your knowledge against Identity Theft. Get the books and sign-up for the Identity Theft Newsletter. Please check out my blog as well, it is also named, you guessed it, Answers to Identity Theft (blog). I would love to hear from you. We are all in this together; so if we can help each other, then together we will win this identity theft crisis. If you would like a unique version of this article or other articles on Identity Theft for your website, just onClick="javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('/outgoing/article_exit_link');" href="http://www.byfaith-enterprises.com/content/spin/?c=law">Click Here for Unique Articles.
Crooks are becoming more inventive in how they take your identity. Bravery is not a must any more, nor is guns and knives or any physical hurt. Now days it may possibly be your neighbor or a person you pass in the mall. We can by no means be too cautious with our identity.
Whatever system the lawbreakers use, mail theft, account invasion, dumpster diving, the end result is the same: An nave person like you is ripped off.
Think about this for a moment; what is a very low-tech technique use by thieves to pull off identity theft? It is simply stealing mail from unsecured mailboxes. Thieves have been stealing mail out of unsecured mail boxes for many years; but it has only been in the current time that thieves have come to recognize the profit to be achieved from the financial information they can get. How safe is your mail box?
Mail theft happens most of the time, according to the figures, at places where unprotected and easy to get to mailboxes are these are mailboxes without a lock and in common places. Does your mailbox fall into this type?
Thieves know how to and carry out, using outgoing stolen mail, obtain sufficient indispensable information to begain a new account with the victims (your) name. Crooks can take pre-approved credit card application, change the address to a new address, and then send it in. Criminals can steal a credit card statement, lift the account number, and buy goods or services. A thief can watch your incoming mail for a new credit card or ATM card, steal it, and charge thousands of dollars to it in one afternoon.
What about the red flag on your mailbox? One mail carrier said, The postal service call those red flags the steal me flags. Start taking your out-going mail to the post office or drop US mail boxes on your way to or from work. Thieves can and will do much damage with what they remove from your mailbox.
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