Beyond Identity Theft Law In a civilized world, having law to condemn felony is a mainstream practice to protect personal freedom of citizens. Every educated, adult knows the concept of universal right and wrong as far as execution of freedom is concerned like the way no one kills to end someone else's life. Indeed, there is great chance now more than ever that your personal information will be stolen by identity number thieves. Therefore, the question in everyone s mind is: How can we protect ourselves and our families from identity thieves? The first thing that any individuals wanting to be protected from identity number theft must do is to be informed and educated. Households, telephone booths, and garbage areas are common places where criminals loiter around to look for their prey. Thieves simply want it the easiest way to earn without exerting much effort. If a culprit gets into hands-on control of one s number, it could be a start of a cycle of indefinite crimes against the legitimate owner, would lead the poor victim and his family into rubbles of chaos that can t easily be repaired. Of course there are extreme measures available like shredding all official documents that contain sensitive information such as one's social security number before disposing of them in your garbage can. This is done to prevent thieves from finding this essential information in your trash. It is kind of extreme though because this scenario seems straight out of a recent Hollywood offering but it does happen and in this case, it is better to err in the side of caution than suffer the tremendous headache, confusion and gigantic problems that besiege victims of identity theft. Some use change-of-address cards from the Post Office to have your mail forwarded to another address typically a vacant building. They may steal garbage bags or "dumpster dive" for trash with revealing information. Fellow employees may access information from your personnel file. Bank employees have collected data from their computer databases. Common Ways to Evade Being a Victim of Identity Fraud: 1. It s a rare case that someone will ask you about your middle initial (mother s surname), if it happens, never divulge it. Obviously, banks or other financial management companies have already put them on records, and another attempt to get thru the like data is certainly created by somebody else s, other than where your inputs are.