Court Finds Contractor Guilty of Identity Fraud (Part 2)

Experts have long advised us to keep information that you want private off the internet but today’s wired world is making that almost impossible for you need credit card numbers for transactions (groceries, clothes, and more), Social Security Numbers to check the balance of your loan and many more, all of that information gets stored somewhere in a computer that processes it and keeps it in archives as long as the law specifies it. Anybody coming across that very information can use that against you in many ways such as identity fraud and other forms of identity theft that leaves you vulnerable from all sides. There was a story of a pregnant woman who left her child in the hospital after giving birth, after sometime another woman comes in to get a checkup only to be arrested for child abandonment. That woman had to spend a couple of hours explaining to hospital authorities and police that she is not the mother of the abandoned child and that her driver’s license was stolen along with her wallet a few days ago. Even after saying that, she still had to go on and on for hours to clear things up and another month or so to get child’s records excluded form her medical records that needed a court order to make it happen. All that trouble because of a stolen license card, imagine having your address, social security number and information along with your credit card numbers and other financial information, you do the imagining.