Identity Theft The Invisible Crime According to the Federal Trade Commission, The 1990's spawned a new variety of crooks called identity thieves. Their stock in trade? Your everyday transactions, which usually reveal bits of your personal information: your bank and credit card account numbers; your income; your Social Security number (SSN); or your name, address, and phone numbers. An identity thief obtains some piece of your sensitive information and uses it without your knowledge to …showed first 75 words of 1479 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1479 total…in filing a complaint, will save consumers time, money, and stress of having to cope with the horrendous crime of identity theft. References ID Theft. (2003). Federal Trade Commission. Retrieved October 19, 2003, from http://consumer.gov.html, 1-5. Saunders, K., & Zucker, B. (Aug, 1999). Counteracting identity in the information age: The Identity Theft and Assumption Deterrence Act. International Review of Law, Computers & Technology, 13 (2), 183 - 193. Swartz, N. (May/Jun , 2003). Hard Drives Tell All. Information Management Journal 37 (3), 12-13.