Identity theft involving these cards is a growing form of white collar crime, facilitating illegal immigration, banking and accounting fraud, tax evasion, and other nefarious activities.
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Identity theft is a serious crime that affects millions of Americans each year.
Identity theft is one of the fastest-growing crimes in the nation - especially in the suburbs.
I still assume that, any day, I'm going to be exposed as a fraud. That, like I once heard Gene Hackman say, the acting police are going to burst in and take away my card.
We should be very concerned: if identity theft is so simple to do, what's to stop me from entering this country and assuming the identity of someone else for the sole purpose of living here illegally for terrorist reasons? That alone would be a concern.
As problems like identity theft become more prevalent, now more than ever, Americans need to take their financial health seriously - and this information is of the utmost importance.
Credit cards are like snakes: Handle 'em long enough, and one will bite you.
Consular cards are easily obtained with no proof of true identity and are easily forged.
Criminals look at identity theft and say only 1 in 700 criminals gets convicted of it. And they look at check forgery and they know that for every 1,400 forgers arrested, only about 123 get convicted and about 26 go to jail. So the rewards are great, but the risks are very slim. So that's one of the reasons that make it very popular.
You should know, whether you live in the U.S. or in the U.K., that your identity has already been stolen.
The true identity theft is not financial. It's not in cyberspace. It's spiritual. It's been taken.