Guidelines on How To Commit Identity Theft Crimes

There are many highly effective ways to successfully steal someone’s identity.

This listing is not all-inclusive. New methods of gaining access to personal information and financial accounts for committing identity theft crimes are developed as often as new computer viruses are created. Here you will find enough tips and pointers to launch your new career.

1)      Work the parking lot at Wal-Mart’s or Home Depot on a Saturday afternoon looking through all the unlocked vehicles you come across. Check the glove compartment, under the floor mats, pockets and pouches, under the seats and if possible look in the trunk. Many people leave their drivers license, check book and even their credit or debit cards lying about in their car for their convenience.

2)      Mailbox sifting in choice neighborhoods can give you access to a gold mine of useful paperwork and information. Keep an eye out for pre-approved credit card offers which can easily payout to the tune of thousands if you pick the right streets. You can also find financial account information from checking, savings, investments and even loans that can be used for your profit. An excellent source for shiny new driver’s license replacement cards and also batches of reprinted checks as well as new credit cards arriving with nothing on the balance.

3)      Find out when trash day is and hit the targets in the middle of the night. Everyone puts their garbage out the night before the pickup crew makes the rounds in their neighborhood. There will lots of discarded paperwork you might find of value to your new identity theft income stream.

4)      Get on the phone and start calling people on Saturday or Sunday. You can choose who you want to pose as randomly or pick one of the banks they do business with which will catch them by surprise. Here’s some ideas of who you could say you are:

§         Mortgage or foreclosure specialist who can save them money.

§         The prize disbursement center for some contest.

§         A charity collecting money to further a good cause.

§         A fraud specialist verifying account information from their bank.

§         You get the idea; use your imagination to find a new scam.

5)      Hack into online job application centers. You’ll get a ton of useful information here including previous addresses and social security numbers. Past job history could even come in useful somewhere along the way. You can always bribe someone at their current place of employment to get you everything in their human resource file. Some people will do anything for money.

6)   Buy an email list and send out blanket inquiries for account updates or possible fraud alerts with a copied Paypal website as the landing page. You need a sophisticated and knowledge website and form builder to pull this one off. Other banking institutions can also be used with this scheme to commit identity theft crimes.

7)      Get in tight with someone at a doctor’s office or break in and make you own medical record copies. Bribing some poor underpaid orderly at the hospital could also be a way to steal unsuspecting people’s medical records and identities. You can also pose as a hospital visitor and check out nightstand drawers for wallets in safekeeping. You will need to know how is an inpatient on the floor you want access to. Don’t overlook dental offices as a source of medical information.

To Whom It May Concern: It is not the intention of this article to be used by someone who desires to actually join the ranks of criminals who practice the art of identity theft. The information contained above is aimed at alerting consumers of the possible ways a fraud artist can commit identity theft crimes and easily do so every day of the week.