The main reason for the identity thefts are due to reveals of protection of your social security number, birth date and other identities like residential or office address, phone number through e-mail, website or over phone. The major cases are occurs in credit card because of disclosing a PIN or customer numbers while using the credit card online.
The Federal Trade Commission gives some suggestions to minimize the risk of identity theft to protect from the possible threats.
Majority of the people are not aware that someone is accessing their accounts even after a year. The US Department of Justice there are various frauds occur and this will result a huge loss of customer end due to careless handling of their online accounts. It is important that customer must be smart enough to take care of their personal and account information properly.
In the Identity Theft and Assumption Deterrence Act, name, birth certificate and Social Security Number is only for recognition only. In most cases, a pledge for personality theft gets punishment of 15 years custody some time it is 30 year fine of any individual belongings planned to be used to commit the faults like credit card fraud; Social Security fraud, mail fraud; computer fraud; institutional fraud; etc.
