Posted by: ID Guardian in: ● August 18, 2010
Identity theft continues to be one of the fastest growing crimes in the country and according to the Federal Trade Commission, 5 percent of all identity theft complaints in 2008 were victims under the age of one. Younger aged children are often targeted by identity thieves because the crime can go undetected for longer periods [...]
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Posted by: Neal OFarrell in: ● August 11, 2010
Security experts recently uncovered a new and very sinister twist on identity theft – businesses actively selling the Social Security numbers of children to buyers with less-than-stellar credit, who dump the stolen identities as soon as they’re no longer of use, then purchase more. Sounds crazy, but it does seem to be increasing in popularly, [...]
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