Watching movies like Catch Me If You Can have culturally shown how criminal identity theft can be used in modern society to protect those who have done wrong. Making us ask How do I protect myself from Identity Theft? Unfortunately, criminal/character identity theft is all too common in modern society and it can be incredibly hard for the victims of this type of identity theft to get back to normality afterwards.
This article looks closely at the effect that criminal identity theft has on the victims of the charade. When criminals present personal information of another person to the police, the innocent victim could find warrants released for their arrests and even checks into their family and working life.
Once a misunderstanding has been cleared, the process of clearing an innocent person's name can be a long one and sometimes, may not even be foolproof.
The trauma of having an identity used illegitimately can be punctuated by court appearances which are required for the innocent to be cleared of charges and by identity checks like fingerprinting to prove identity.After all of these processes have been completed, it may not be guaranteed that the identity fraudulently used has the spotless criminal record of before. Years from the incident, background checks can possibly bring up incidents that the person was wrongly accused of and the person's identity may need to be recorded down in police files as a potential alias for the criminal, depending on how serious the crimes really are.
Many people ask how I can protect myself from identity theft and the answer is simple. Do not be reckless with the information you give about yourself online, as the fragments of personal information you share on a plethora of websites could be surmounted to establish a relatively complete profile of your identity as a whole, an identity which could ruin you for life.
