More Identity Theft Offline Than Online
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1755262,00.asp
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Federal regulators warn that the Internet is the thriving frontier for identity theft, but 72 percent of the thefts of personal information for scams last year was done offline,
Even on Law and Order a few weeks ago they had a guy paying homeless people for bags of personal docs from garbage and recycling.
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Friends, family members and neighbors account for half of all known thieves
Nice. What would Mr Rogers say?