DA warns residents to guard against identity theft
Rockwall —
Rockwall County’s criminal district attorney is taking a program to
senior citizen audiences because she wants to warn them about one of the
nation’s fastest growing criminal enterprises.
These criminals are thieves, but they usually don’t steal belongings
from their victims. What they want, instead, is the victim’s identity.
Kenda Culpepper said thieves can take your name, birth date, driver’s
license number, Social Security number, bank account number and other
personal information to buy cars, steal money, open credit card accounts
and even open telephone accounts so they can make international calls.
“Identity thieves have become very clever in trying to get your
personal information because that’s what they want,” Culpepper told an
audience of about 30 people during a recent program at the Rockwall
County Library.
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