Identity Theft as the name depicts :-It is the process of
stolen someone’s personal information like name, credit card information,
social security number to commit the
fraud by posing himself like a authorized person. Identity thief done this
identity theft to his own gain or financial advantages on the expense of genuine
person when the victim is alive or deceased.
Usually, identity thief can use personal information to:-
- Obtain credit cards, loans and state benefits.
- Open bank accounts.
- Obtain documents like passport and driving licenses in your name.
- Oder goods on victims behalf.
- Misuse existing accounts and mobile numbers.
- Until ,you can’t receive invoice for those things which you have not ordered or receive letters from debt collectors for debts that are not yours, you may not know that you are a identity theft victim.
Some most common types of identity theft are:
Financial Identity
Theft:- Financial gain is the
most common purpose of stealing personal information. Financial theft can be occurs
to get the credit card, loans, good service in the name of authorized person.
Identity Cloning And
Concealment:- Here identity thief opt someone else identity to conceal
their own real identity. Bad guys may use other person’s images or information
through social networking sites and may
create realistic stories to involving the friends of genuine person. They
can misuse real person’s social information and able to obtain credentials to
pass various authentication tests in daily life.
Synthetic Identity
Theft:- It is the most recent identity theft in which identities are partially or
completely fabricated. Identity thief try to combining true Social Security Number with the name and date of birth. Synthetic theft is difficult to trace
because it does not shown on person’s credit report directly but appear as
entirely new file in the credit bureau or as the subfile on victim’s credit
report.
Medical Identity
Theft:- Under the identity of authorized person some other individual seeks
the medical care, referred as the medical identity theft. In addition to the
risk of financial harm that is common to all variant of identity theft. Here,
it is possible that thief’s medical history may be added to the medical record
of true person that may effects the future treatment due to the misinformation.
Child Identity
Theft:-Some minor’s identity is used by other unauthorized person to the
personal benefits. The impostor
may be a family member, friend or even a stranger who targets the children. The Social Security numbers of children are valued because they do not
have any information associated with them. Thieves can obtain credit, driving
licenses and even buying a house by using child’s identity.
Criminal Identity
Theft:- Criminal fraudulently identifies theirself as a police to the other
individual at the point of arrest, that known as criminal identity theft. These
thief can done some illegal deed or crime but charges place to the other person
whose identity theft by the criminal thief.
Know , how to thief stolen others identity:- Identity thieves can use many techniques to steal personal information like shoulder surfing, dumpster diving , stealing mails,bribing, pretexting, skimming, phishing.
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