http://netvouz.com/PaulColgan/tag/identitytheft?feed=rss PaulColgan's bookmarks tagged "identitytheft" on Netvouz http://technorati.com/tag/lifelock Blogs, Photos, Videos and more on Technorati! Find out everything you need to know about preventing identity theft with Lifelock. PaulColgan Mon, 06 Aug 2007 22:17:06 GMT http://money.howstuffworks.com/identity-theft.htm Identity theft can enter into many areas of our lives. It involves any instance where a person uses someone else's identification documents or other identifiers in order to impersonate that person for whatever reason. According to a September 2003 survey conducted by the Federal Trade Commission, an estimated 10 million people in the United States found out they were victims of identity theft in the previous year. PaulColgan Mon, 06 Aug 2007 22:19:08 GMT http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Identity_theft In 1998, The Federal Trade Commission appeared before the Subcommittee on Technology, Terrorism and Government Information of the Committee of the Judiciary, United States Senate.[2] The FTC highlighted the concerns of consumers for financial crimes exploiting their credit worthiness to commit loan fraud, mortgage fraud, lines-of-credit fraud, credit card fraud, commodities and services frauds. PaulColgan Mon, 06 Aug 2007 22:15:25 GMT