Frank Abagnale, whose life was the subject of the movie “Catch Me if You Can,” said that only about 1 in 700 thieves are caught and charged. Abagale was the keynote speaker for the Government Technology Conference East in Albany, New York. A new type of identity theft has presented itself as recently as 2008, called “Synthetic Identity Theft” By using this type of theft, criminals can remain undetected until it is far too late to catch them. As we know, the best defense is education and using a credit monitoring service.”]
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