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Stealing Your Life

The Ultimate Identity Theft Prevention Plan

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 When Frank Abagnale trains law-enforcement officers for the FBI's National Academy about identity theft, he asks agents for their addresses and nothing more. The next day, he returns with everything he would need to steal their lives: Social Security numbers, dates of birth, current salary, checking account numbers, the names of everyone in their family, and more. This illustrates how easy it is for anyone from anywhere in the world to assume your identity and, in a matter of hours, devastate your life in ways that can take years to recover from.

Considering that someone in the U.S. is victimized in this way every four seconds, Stealing Your Life is the reference everyone needs, by an unsurpassed authority on the latest identity-theft schemes.

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"Offer[s] spine-tingling terror for anyone who has a Social Security number and birth date." ( Publishers Weekly)
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This is out of date now and could really do with being updated to include GDPR and PCI credit card compliance rules. It’s also very US orientated and although some parts (approx 40%) is useful wherever you live or work, you have to listen to multiple anecdotes from the US before you reach them. Credit should be given to Frank Abagnale for highlighting Identity Theft and the need for Banks, Regulators and Law Makers to address the loop holes and stupidly easy ways government process allow identity theft. Overall it’s full of examples (if you like that sort of thing - it’ll irritate if you don’t) and useful, but less so if you’re not in the US and it’s really due an update.

Out of date and very US centric

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