Identity Theft

Term Paper Title	Identity Theft
# of Words	647
# of Pages (250 words per page double spaced)	2.59

Identity Theft

Boo! Are you scared? You should be, you see I'm a ghost and everyday I tap in to
the information cyber world.  And everyday I have access to you.  Worse yet I
could be you. According to the secret service approximatly one half a billion
dollars is lost every year to identity theft online.   What people don't seem to
realize is that the internet world is just like any other community.  so it's
safe to assume the cyberworld would act as any natural community would with
entrapranaurs,  vast corperations, little guys selling warez, doctors visiting
patients in  their cyber offices, church organazations, and cyber crime as well
as cyber criminals.With so many new users signing on everyday the cyber world
has become a tourast trap so to speak where nameless faceless conartists work
the crowds. Ghosts.Anybody can fall victem to a ghost.  Nobody is really truely
safe because our personal information is distrubted like candy on halloween.  We
use our social security numbers as identification numbers   Credit card numbers
are printed on every receipt. And our liscense number is used on a daily basis.
Despite this there are ways to prevent yourself from falling victem to identity
theft.  you see a criminal likes easy prey.  They don't want to have to work for
it.  It's like locking your car at the mall, sure someone might break in anyway,
but chance are if your doors are lock the will probably move on to another car.
First off...  Never give your credit card number online out unless you are
positive that the company you are dealing with is legitimate and reputable.  If
you aren't sure call the better burough of business.  Never give out your social
security number unless you absolutly have to, the only times you are legally
obligated to give out your social security number is when you are requesting
government aid of some kind or for employment reasons.    Also I have
information packets that I will hand out reguarding a company that...

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