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What you need to know about:  IDENTITY THEFT PREVENTION AND RECOVERY


CASE STUDIES


Consider these examples, outlined by official U.S. government sources:

· In 1996 a woman who ordered her credit report online victimized Mari Frank, The woman proceeded to purchase a new Ford Mustang and accrue as much as $50,000 in expenses in Ms. Frank’s name.
 
· A 20-year old dental assistant from Maine was killed in 1999 by a stalker who bought her Social Security number off the Internet, and then used it to locate her work address.
 
· A young woman from Los Angeles had her Social Security number stolen and it was used to charge $50,000, including a $32,000 truck, a $5,000 liposuction operation, and a yearlong residential lease.
 
Dennis Lormel of the Federal Bureau of Investigation also warns us that identity theft can have far-reaching consequences that may even dwarf the personal hell experienced by victims in importance:

“The impact is greater than just the loss of money or property. As the victims of identity theft well know, it is a particularly invasive crime that causes immeasurable damage to the victim's good name and reputation in the community; damage that is not easily remedied. The threat is made graver by the fact that terrorists have long utilized identity theft as well as Social Security Number fraud to enable them to obtain such things as cover employment and access to secure locations. These and similar means can be utilized by terrorists to obtain Driver's Licenses, and bank and credit card accounts through which terrorism financing is facilitated. Terrorists and terrorist groups require funding to perpetrate their terrorist agendas. The methods used to finance terrorism range from the highly sophisticated to the most basic. There is virtually no financing method that has not at some level been exploited by these groups. Identity theft is a key catalyst fueling many of these methods.”

A report entitled “Identity Theft Literature Review,” prepared by Graeme R. Newman and Megan M. McNally for the United States Department of Justice in 2005 provided several individual case studies of specific acts of identity theft.  These three examples demonstrate the varied nature of identity theft and provide us with compelling real-life incidents to which we can relate.  They remind us that everyone is a potential victim of identity theft.
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