It is a social responsibility for everyone to know that how serious of a crime is identity theft. The identity theft has been increasing day by day which needs to be stopped in order to maintain one’s own protection. Hence in this article few of the statistics of identity theft to prove the importance of this awareness. The concept of identity theft was first recognized in the 1990’s and was mentioned in the literature. According to the studies the rime had increased 11-20% between the years 2001-2002. But thereafter by the year 2003 there was a great jump to 80% increase. (more…)

The United States of America has enacted the laws on identity theft in order to get control over the rapid growth of this identity theft nuisance, and have the motive of gradually putting a full stop to this crime. After the law enforcement agencies and other law makers recognized this problem in the 1990’s, they found the urgency of passing a law to obstruct its growth, and hence in the year 1998 a new law called Identity Theft and Assumption Deterrence Act (ITADA) was introduced to give justice to the thieves and protect their victims from the harm caused by them. (more…)

Identity theft, though a new from of crime is already being very common. The identity theft cases are not only oriented towards the common average man but also the rich and powerful. This seemingly impossible act of impersonating or assuming the credentials of a famous and powerful personality is carried out by means of computer hackers. These criminals run elaborate rackets with various interconnected arms. Some are engaged in retrieving or obtaining personal information while some are engaged in forging documents such as passports and driving license. Thus the racket runs efficiently and is very difficult to crack down. (more…)

The problem of Identity theft is gaining in importance today due to widespread implications of the crime. While the victim has no clue, the criminal has access to the victim’s credit card details; bank accounts and other personal information which when fall into the wrong hands can have devastating effects on the innocent victims. The ways to identify this crime are limited as the crime is of recent origin so the modus operandi is not well known. (more…)