How to Prevent Identity Number Theft Identity number theft is becoming very common nowadays. In fact, the incidence of identity number theft has in increasing annually. You see and hear a lot about it from television, radio and newspapers and magazines. We see and hear about report of huge amounts of personal information being stolen by identity number thieves. And in case evidence suggests that someone may have already stolen it, there are steps that you can take to protect yourself from further damage. For your credit accounts, you can report it to the different fraud agencies who can issue a fraud alert on your account. This alert would notify creditors to contact you every time a new account is being made under your name. One must not carelessly give identity in all web forms they encounter in every visited websites. Being in the Internet means being responsible for every data transfer in every keyboard interaction. Every site visit means you are exposing your Internet Protocol (IP) address, where webmasters can look through history and online traffic, enough to know you through location and service provider. Originally approved Credit Cards, or renewals of the same, may be delivered by servicemen who may try to get your personal data that are not commonly asked, such as birthdays, or expiry dates of your card. Refrain from it, instead, tell them to send you a written message, bearing the letterhead of the originating office that they need it, to add to your resume. Protecting Identity is More Than Protecting Individuality Do you remember that Hollywood blockbuster several years ago involving a woman that needed to keep running because of a compromised identity with information taken from the Internet? Or more recently, there was yet another Hollywood offering that shows a regular family man's ideal home and family turned into a suspense-filled arena for a bank heist because of sensitive information gathered from the family trash? Once filed, if its with the FTI, being the leading and core authority to follow-up of credit records trespassing, it has full control to *detect, by way of consistent monitoring of your financial accounts as well as your current billings; *to deter, with caution to safeguard any personal information data under their safekeeping; *defend your identification from any continuous manipulations of the suspected theft.