| Crimes, as time goes by, are getting easier to | | | | Applications for loans and credit cards, withdrawals |
| commit. People no longer have to break into our | | | | from bank accounts, use of telephone calling cards |
| houses just to get our important documents. We | | | | are just few of the things that they can do using the |
| may not know that there are people out there who | | | | identity of others eve without the permission of the |
| kept on watching us as we dial, punch or press the | | | | later. |
| numbers for our different important accounts. We | | | | Identity theft doesn't only involve credit cards, it also |
| may not know that someone is already listening to | | | | possible for a thief to steal your passwords, banking |
| our phone conversation as we tell our credit card | | | | information, and personal data. Because of their |
| numbers. These acts are called shoulder surfing, | | | | desire to steal another's identity, in the World Wide |
| eavesdropping on public transactions to obtain | | | | Web, they will create programs that will send you |
| personal data. | | | | spam. These spam promise exciting benefits which |
| Dumpster driving is another style of stealing personal | | | | will then lead you to respond to the spam and reveal |
| information where a person checks your garbage | | | | your personal information. This proves that personal |
| cans just to find copies of different bank statements. | | | | data stored in computers are not also safe because |
| It also involves stealing mail or rummaging through | | | | there are cases reported that identity thieves took |
| rubbish containing personal information. This proves | | | | advantage of the technology. |
| that even our compound is no longer safe and our | | | | We say that our fingerprints are unique and cannot |
| garbage can still be useful to others but really harmful | | | | be given to someone else for their use but in identity |
| to us. | | | | theft, there is what we call fingerprint identification |
| Through the styles presented above, one can easily | | | | where identity thieves obtain castings of fingerprints |
| steal one's identity. This is known as identity theft. | | | | in order to falsify. |
| After gaining and getting those important numbers | | | | Identity thieves are just around us, still continuing |
| and information, the thief is now ready to use those | | | | stealing other's identity. The thief who stole your |
| for economic gain or worse, to pretend to be you. | | | | friend's identity might now be targeting you because |
| Mails usually are one of the easiest ways to have an | | | | they are not often arrested for what they did. The |
| access to your account. The identity thieves might | | | | crime is not accounted to them but to their victims. |
| just be waiting for you to throw in your garbage bins | | | | As they enjoy the benefits they gained from stealing |
| the mail coming from your credit card company | | | | one's identity, that victim is there left with several |
| where you credit card number is written. Without | | | | damages including his or her reputation that will affect |
| you knowing, once they get it, they will definitely | | | | his or her entire life. |
| retrieve and use it for their personal desires. | | | | |