This time, let’s round up five of the most common types of ID theft scams. Knowing these will help you recognize the unusual symptoms that occur when you or someone you care about becomes a victim of identity fraud. The pernicious thing about identity theft is that the fallout for the victim can occur weeks, months or years after the fraudster commits actual crimes, but in many cases the warning signs – unusual mail, credit fluctuations and phone calls – come about much sooner. An identity theft prevention system such as LifeLock can help you detect these problems faster.

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On March 25^th, 2009 the FBI reported that it broke up one of the country’s largest auto identity theft rings, and that a new national database may soon make that crime more difficult. But wait – auto identity theft? Aren’t identity thieves after people’s identities, not cars’? The answer is that they want both. In reality, stealing a car’s identity is a subset of identity theft targeting people. It’s a way to make stolen cars hard to trace by doctoring them with false information.

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