Aggravated Identity Theft: Insidious, Dangerous, but Little-Known
Identity theft is a chameleon-like crime; it varies in form and appearance depending on the criminals’ goals and skill sets. The financial mess you envision when you hear the phrase…
Identity theft is a chameleon-like crime; it varies in form and appearance depending on the criminals’ goals and skill sets. The financial mess you envision when you hear the phrase…
Becoming a victim of identity theft is nobody’s idea of fun. Quite aside from the understandable emotional impact and feelings of violation, identity theft can cause you a host of…
Payment methods have evolved greatly over the years, from barter to coins and then later to paper money and checks. Each of those payment methods had its own weaknesses and…
It’s a nearly universal childhood experience: standing in front of an authority figure — your principal at school, a famously stern grandparent, your own parents at the end of their…
Not so very long ago, there were a lot of headlines about a type of data theft called “skimming.” Criminals added their own illicit data-capture devices to legitimate ATM or…
Your Social Security number was never originally intended to serve as a piece of general-purpose identification — in fact, it was explicitly meant not to fill that niche — but,…