_Definition: The crime of stealing someone's personal,
identifying information for the purpose of using that information
fraudulently. Personal, identifying information includes: Social
Security Numbers, credit card and banking account numbers, usernames,
passwords, and patient records. Fraudulent uses for that information can
often include: opening new credit accounts, taking out loans in the
victim's name, stealing money from financial accounts, or using
available credit.
The crime of identity theft is most often committed by organized crime rings or desperate individuals with opportunity.
With your small group of 3, you will be reading information from one real life Identity Theft News Article and one Identity Theft Personal Story. You will need to read your story and then create a summary to be shared with the rest of the class.
You will then create a poster as a group on 2 tips or bits of important information specific to your story that would help others avoid the form of identity theft you read about in your article.
NOTE: (you will need to click the links once you get to each of the following links. The short summary below each link is not the entire story).
Click here to see a list of the Identity Theft News Stories
Your poster should be neat and presentable and include the names of the articles you read. You must also include the names of all the group members. We will be hanging these tips around the classroom.
Identity Theft matching Game
Click on the file below called "Identity_Theft_info" and read through the handout on page 2. Be sure that you understand each of the terms on the various flashcard tiles. Once you have had a chance to go through the worksheet, make flashcards in your flashcard app for each one of the terms listed on page 1 (the cutout page). Study these terms as we will likely be having a quiz on them at some point in the near future. Understand what each term means and why it can be dangerous or why it can be helpful for Identity.