How can people protect their identity from identity theft?
Many hackers try to steal the identity from innocent people. Young people are one of identity thefts' targets because they use computer a lot and they did not care their personal information carefully. Young people can think it is not big deal but no one does know what your information will be used for.Therefore, we have to protect our information ourselves. People have to know what identity theft is and how they steal our information.
Identity thefts are hackers who use virus or programs to steal innocent people's information such as credit card number, social security number, and e-mail address. Identity theft use phishing and pharming for stealing identities. Phishing is using e-mail to get personal information. For instance, identity thefts send fake e-mail that drive you to reply your credit number or send virus to check your computer. If you do not open or carefully read the e-mail, you can avoid from identity thefts. However, pharming is hard to avoid, because it uses fake Web site. It is difficult to know whether it is real Web sites or not. They will get your ID and password from fake site.
Identity thefts use innocent people's information to get money or sell information. It could make big trouble later. If you think your information is stolen especially credit number, you have to change new credit card. It is one way to protect your identities.
To sum up, identity thefts steal innocent people to get financial information. You have to protect your identities yourself.