In addition, some government agencies and nonprofit organizations provide similar assistance, typically with websites that have information and tools to help people avoid, remedy, and report incidents of identity theft.
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I Accept Show Purposes. Your Money. Personal Finance. Your Practice. Popular Courses. Financial Fraud Identity Theft. What Is Identity Theft? Key Takeaways Identity theft occurs when someone steals your personal information and credentials to commit fraud. There are various forms of identity theft, but the most common is financial.
Identity theft protection is a growing industry that keeps track of people's credit reports, financial activity, and Social Security number use. For example: False applications for loans and credit cards, Fraudulent withdrawals from bank accounts, Fraudulent use of telephone calling cards or online accounts, or Obtaining other goods or privileges which the criminal might be denied if he were to use his real name What Can You Do If You've Become a Victim of Identity Theft?
Call the fraud department. Explain that someone stole your identity. Ask them to close or freeze the accounts. Then, no one can add new charges unless you agree. Change logins, passwords, and PINs for your accounts. To place a fraud alert, contact one of the three credit bureaus. That company must tell the other two. Get your free credit reports from Equifax, Experian, and TransUnion.
Five states—Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Michigan and Tennessee—have forfeiture provisions for identity theft crimes. Please type in a state in the box below to be taken directly to the state's statutory information. Financial identify fraud is a Class B felony if the victim is an elder person or a disabled person. In addition to any other authorized restitution, the restitution order may include without limitation restitution for the following financial losses: i Any costs incurred by the victim in correcting the credit history or credit rating of the victim; and ii Any costs incurred in connection with any civil or administrative proceeding to satisfy any debt, lien, or other obligation resulting from the theft of the victim's identifying information, including lost wages and attorney's fees.
The court also may order restitution for financial loss to any other person or entity that suffers a financial loss from a violation of subsection a or b of this section. B Restitution to the victim or victims, if any, in accordance with subdivision f , which shall be enforceable as if the order were a civil judgment. If the amount of loss cannot be ascertained at the time of sentencing, the restitution order shall include a provision that the amount shall be determined at the direction of the court.
The court shall order full restitution. The court may modify the amount, on its own motion or on the motion of the district attorney, the victim or victims, or the defendant. If a motion is made for modification of a restitution order, the victim shall be notified of that motion at least 10 days prior to the proceeding held to decide the motion.
A victim at a restitution hearing or modification hearing described in this paragraph may testify by live, two-way audio and video transmission, if testimony by live, two-way audio and video transmission is available at the court.
The value of stolen or damaged property shall be the replacement cost of like property, or the actual cost of repairing the property when repair is possible. B Medical expenses. C Mental health counseling expenses. Lost wages shall include commission income as well as base wages.
Commission income shall be established by evidence of commission income during the month period prior to the date of the crime for which restitution is being ordered, unless good cause for a shorter time period is shown.
G Interest, at the rate of 10 percent per annum, that accrues as of the date of sentencing or loss, as determined by the court. I Expenses incurred by an adult victim in relocating away from the defendant, including, but not limited to, deposits for utilities and telephone service, deposits for rental housing, temporary lodging and food expenses, clothing, and personal items.
Expenses incurred pursuant to this section shall be verified by law enforcement to be necessary for the personal safety of the victim or by a mental health treatment provider to be necessary for the emotional well-being of the victim. K Expenses to retrofit a residence or vehicle, or both, to make the residence accessible to or the vehicle operational by the victim, if the victim is permanently disabled, whether the disability is partial or total, as a direct result of the crime.
Criminal possession of one or more identification documents issued to the same person is a class 1 misdemeanor. Proof that a person used or was in possession of the personal identification information of five or more individuals, unless satisfactorily explained, gives rise to an inference that the person who used or was in possession of the personal identification information did so knowingly and intentionally without authorization. A person commits the offense of aggravated identity fraud when he or she willfully and fraudulently uses any counterfeit or fictitious identifying information concerning a real, fictitious, or deceased person with intent to use such counterfeit or fictitious identifying information for the purpose of obtaining employment.
In regard to a violation of K. If the court finds a plan of restitution unworkable, the court shall state on the record in detail the reasons therefor.
Conduct and offenses giving rise to forfeiture under this act, whether or not there is a prosecution or conviction related to the offense, are:. Financial loss may include any costs incurred by the victim in correcting the credit history of the victim or any costs incurred in connection with any civil or administrative proceeding to satisfy any debt or other obligation of such victim, including lost wages and attorney's fees.
Any second or subsequent conviction under this subdivision is a Class II felony. Any second or subsequent conviction under this subdivision is a Class III felony. Any second or subsequent conviction under this subdivision is a Class IV felony. Any second conviction under this subdivision is a Class I misdemeanor, and any third or subsequent conviction under this subdivision is a Class IV felony. Any second conviction under this subdivision is a Class III felony, and any third or subsequent conviction under this subdivision is a Class II felony.
An individual is guilty of an offense if the individual uses or attempts to use any personal identifying information of another individual, living or deceased, to obtain credit, money, goods, services, or anything else of value without the authorization or consent of the other individual.
A second or subsequent offense is a class A. Heather Morton is a program principal in Fiscal Affairs. She covers financial services, alcohol production and sales, and medical malpractice issues for NCSL.. Create Account. This website uses cookies to analyze traffic and for other purposes.
You consent to the use of cookies if you use this website. Continue Our online privacy policy. Upon conviction for any crime in this article, in addition to any other punishment, a person found guilty shall be ordered by the court to make restitution for financial loss caused by the criminal violation of this article to any person whose identifying information was appropriated.
Financial loss may include any costs incurred by the victim in correcting the credit history or credit rating of the victim or any costs incurred in connection with any civil or administrative proceeding to satisfy any debt, lien, or other obligations resulting from the theft of the victim's identification documents or identifying information, including lost wages and attorney's fees. The court may order restitution for financial loss to any other person or entity that suffers a loss from the violation.
Dealing in false identification documents is a Class C felony. Vital records identity fraud is a Class C felony. Financial identity fraud is a Class C felony Financial identify fraud is a Class B felony if the victim is an elder person or a disabled person.
Call the organization back, but do not dial the number that appears on the caller ID function, instead look for the number from a phone book or the internet.
This way you prevent the schemer or someone else working with the schemer from lying to you by telling you that the company is legitimate. When you call the legitimate company, question them to verify if the request is legitimate. If it is a legitimate company, tell them you have been solicited and verify the legitimacy of the call. If the legitimate company tells you that the message is not legitimate, report the Vishing attack to the Internet Crime Complaint Center IC3 at www.
You can add yourself to the registry at www. The website is legitimately indexed into search engines such as yahoo or Google so that during the normal course of searching for products or services individuals can find these offers.
Once the individual access the website the user is given incentives and persuaded in such a way that the individual becomes susceptible to give up his or her personal identifying information to take advantage of the offer being given. An example of this would be when you are purchasing a normally high priced item over the internet, such as a video game system, and you find a website that has a much lower price.
You may be tempted to purchase this item at a lower price but you do not realize that you are accessing a fake website. Another example is a job website that may offer a higher salary than the same job by other companies in that industry. To protect yourself, before submitting any information or downloading any attachments, research the company. If you have never heard of the company or the offer, contact competitors and question the legitimacy of what is being offered.
If you are purchasing something, make sure the padlock is visible in the right hand corner of the website scrollbar. Another resource to verify if a website is legitimate is www. This website contains reviews of websites along with message boards for up to date phishing and identification scams going on.
SMiShing In this scheme, the identity thief sends spam text messages posing as a financial institution or other legitimate entity. The text message has a sense of urgency, and can scare you into thinking there is a serious emergency by leading you to believe you will suffer financial losses or fees if there is no response.
This may lead you to disclose personal identifying information by clicking on the link that appears on the text message. Do not dial back the unknown number, you would only be providing the spammer some of the information they need from you. Look through the phone book or the internet for a number to contact the organization that is supposedly contacting you.
Verify that your information is actually needed because you have been solicited for information through text messaging. If you find that the request is not legitimate, contact your cell phone provider and alert them of the scheme. If you find you have become a victim of identity theft, read our What To Do If Your Identity Is Stolen web page for steps to follow that can help you restore your credit.
Malware Based Phishing This scheme occurs when the thief attaches a harmful computer program made to look helpful onto emails, websites, and other electronic documents on the Internet. This type of computer program is called malware. The malware uses key loggers and screen loggers to record your keyboard strokes and sites that you visit on the Internet. The malware sends the information to the schemer who is located at another location using the Internet.
An example of this type of phishing is an email disguised as coming from Norton Anti-Virus. The message prompts you to install an updated web browser to increase your computer security.
You, click on the link and download the supposed updated browser but in reality you have just downloaded malware. To protect yourself from this type of scheme, use caution before downloading or installing any program on the web. Tell the legitimate company that you have received an email requesting that you download a specific file, and that you would like to know if there was any legitimacy to it.
Do not reply the email message; the attacker could trick you into believing that the email is authentic. Moreover, by replying to the email message, you would be giving some of your information to the attacker. If the company tells you that email is not legitimate, report the phishing attack to the Internet Crime Complaint Center IC3 at www.
These email messages offer you opportunities for scholarships, business partnerships, or free products.
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