Don't be quick and easy to play with your identity - otherwise someone else will

 The FBI called it "America's Fastest Growing Crime." It kills nearly 10 million Americans every year, and costs an estimated $50 billion a year. Many criminals get away with it while victims spend excruciating weeks rebuilding their damaged credit reports and reputations. And of course not infrequently a lot of money. What's worse is that the problem doesn't seem to end.

"The popularity of crime is growing faster than the decision to stop it"

concluded many experts. Recovering them is so time-consuming, expensive, and difficult that some countries have begun issuing "identity theft cards" to help victims survive the often lengthy and difficult purges.

Recent studies and studies by the Bureau for Better Business show that while the number of cases has decreased since 2003, they are still quite frightening - even frightening.

Check out these statistics from this office -

With over 9,000,000 cases - that's an average of about 20,000 per day or about 800 per hour. $6 billion lost - that's an average of $6,000 lost for each victim.

It's a scary number

Just imagine that EVERY HOUR OF EVERY DAY EVERY week lost 800 people to this scam - people we know you, our neighbors, office mates - innocent people trapped in a growing network, losing money and then hours spent crying in frustration trying to get hold of your life again.

That leads us to believe this is a cybercrime, but statistics show it is not. In fact, less than 10% of identity theft cases are committed online. The rest is done offline. In almost 50% of cases, it is the victim himself who finds the harm, and in almost half of the cases, the perpetrator and the victim are closely related - friends, relatives, colleagues, employees. A large number actually comes from the simple theft of a wallet. Checkbook or credit card.

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It should also be noted that there has been a demographic change in the target group. If you're over 65, you can relax - but only a little. The 25 to 34 year olds among you are now the biggest targets of scammers.

But while identity theft cases have decreased - from 9.3 million to 8.9 million in 2006 - the loss of every victim is increasing.

That number increased from $5,900 in 2005 to nearly $6,400 in 2006. The number of traumatic hours spent repairing financial disabilities also increased from 28 hours in 2005 to more than 40 hours in 2006. This year is the last year figures are available. It is possible that they have exploded sharply since then as our criminal elements realize how easy and profitable identity theft can be. And with a relatively low risk of being caught.

We are trust. We put off insuring our house until it catches fire, or insuring our belongings and belongings until one day we get home and find that the most expensive items are missing. Like Voltaire's Candida, we tend to believe that in a world of the best of all possibilities, all is best. But we often find it difficult that this is not the case. Absolutely not.