Stealing Your Life: The Ultimate Identity Theft Prevention Plan - Hardcover

Frank Abagnale

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0767925866 ISBN 13: 9780767925860

Publisher: Broadway Books, 2007

Synopsis

Stealing Your Life With identity theft affecting someone every four seconds, "Stealing Your Life" is an essential reference, by an unsurpassed authority. Offering dozens of steps readers can take to protect themselves, this is the proactive solution to one of today's most nefarious and common crimes. Full description

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Review:

"Offering spine-tingling terror for anyone who has a Social Security number and birth date, this heart-pounding guide drives home the point that identity theft can come from any direction at any time to anyone." --Publisher's Weekly

"Stealing Your Life provides powerful strategies for prevention, and is filled with informative examples of true-life fraud cases. [Abagnale] shows how to recognize the tell-tale signs of fraud, identifies likely culprits, how they get the data they need, and how they ultimately make a profit." --Tulsa World

"Nobody knows the ins and outs of identity fraud better than Frank Abagnale." -Inc. magazine

About the Author:

When I was passing phony checks in other people’s names thirty years ago, it took me weeks and a million-dollar Heidelberg printing press to create and cash a realistic-looking check. Today criminals do it in an instant on a $500 computer, with no witnesses to pick them out of a lineup, because they’re doing it from an armchair in China, Russia, or Nigeria, a continent away. In recent years identity theft has become the very monster I feared it would become and wrote about in the l980s.

FRANK W. ABAGNALE is the author of the bestselling memoir Catch Me If You Can and The Art of the Steal. He works closely with the FBI and corporations around the world as an expert on counterfeiting and secure documents. He lives in the Midwest with his wife and is the father of three sons.

About this edition

• Publisher: Broadway Books
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0767925866
• ISBN 13: 9780767925860
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 256