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Originally Posted by drjones
Hmm, I dont think you really have a whole lot of control over identity theft. If you blatantly do dumb things like visit sites sent to you in spam messages, or just throw out papers with personal info in the garbage without shredding your asking for it...
but even by having a credit card, your info gets traded around so much by big companies its unreal. Companies (and even the govmnt) lose personal data all the time.. seems to happen pretty frequently.
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Yeah, I suppose. Though I don't consider someone lifting a CC number from somewhere and using it to be identity theft. Thats just credit card fraud. To me, identity theft is where someone takes over your name and opens new accounts in your name and stuff like that. Cases of that are far more rare than people like to think. The media likes to whip up identity theft fears and I think they have far too broad of a definition of what constitutes identity theft.