More than 40 percent of all reports made to the FTC are related to Identity Theft.  Businesses and Individuals spend more than 300 million hours every year to deal with Identity Theft. 

Going by the statistics, at least one person that has been a victim of Identity Theft is close to you.  Identity Theft is not always a result of what you have or have not done.   Lots of information regarding your identity is handled by companies and goverment organization you have worked with.

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