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Identity Fraud: Prevalence and Links to Alien Illegal Activities
Overview This report discusses the significance of "identity fraud" - a term that encompasses a broad range of illegal activities based on fraudulent use of identifying information of a real person or of a fictitious person. A pervasive type of identity fraud is identity theft, which involves "stealing" another person's personal identifying information - such as Social Security number (SSN), date of birth, and mother's maiden name - and then using the information to fraudulently establish credit, run up debt, take over existing financial accounts, or to undertake other activities in another's name.
| Publisher | U.S. Government Accountability Office | File Format | PDF, requires Acrobat Rdr 5 |
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| Date Published | June 2002 | ||
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