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Thieves use a form of electronic communication to pretend to be a company or financial institution in order to get the victim to give up their personal information
What is Phishing
Apply for what you do to make money
What is a job
Someone who gets your information off the internet
Who is a hacker
Unauthorized use of someone's personal information for illicit financial gain.
What is Identity Fraud
You should know the answer to these questions when you enter a password
What is Security Check Questions
Notifies lenders that they should take precautions to ensure your identity before extending credit.
What is a Fraud alert
Unauthorized access to personal information. It can occur without identity fraud, such as through data breaches.
What is Identity Theft
Use of your SSN to defraud the government and steal off your benefits and can make use of your information to falsify documents (such as getting a passport, for example) or to take out loans and credit cards.
What is Social Security ID theft
A personal entry to allow access
What is a password
Writes you a letter on letterhead stolen from a financial institution, stating that you must furnish your social security number to clear up a problem.
What is a phony letter
Criminals can find ways to use this to be sold off to someone who looks passably similar to the real owner. If caught for a traffic violation, drunk driving charge or drug-related charged, criminals
can potentially give the this stolen item
What is Giving a drivers license
Don't enter these on public computers, if you do, log out.
What is usernames and passwords