For instance, banks and other financial institutions may need your social security number to check on your credentials. This is not completely secure but some institutions will offer identity theft protection for a fee and perhaps it's better to do business with financial institutions like these for proper risk management. On credit card identity theft, it could mean that such criminals can use your account for their own purchases. How can such crime happen to someone like you? If you use your credit card on your regular purchases, there are a lot of chances that criminal can get hole of your credit and personal records. Remember that this is not just a simple theft that you can just forget about afterwards. Losing your identity can have a lot of repercussions not only in terms of personal properties but also with social reputation. And because identity thieves are real slick, authorities would not know what is happening unless you tell them so. Leave you check book or check register in a safe place in your home or office. Never carry your check book or check register with you when you go out. If you must carry a check, then just bring one or two blank checks in your wallet. There have been many reported cases of identity number theft stemming from stolen check books. Most of the time, extending links are likely anomalous, or shifting to websites with highly extensive porn settings. There are countless scams in the web, and it s needless to name them. Always be aware that everybody in cyber is virtually having his own setting for whatever purpose it takes him. The Web is wide open for any kind of good or bad biz intent as almost everybody depicts a persona of anybody, or anything else. Criminals may also be able to open up new accounts on your name and use it without paying the bills. You will realize this as a problem when the delinquent accounts turn up on your credit report. Criminals can also establish a phone and wireless service in your name and use it as their own. They can also open new bank accounts and write bad checks on it.