According to Federal Trade Commission, 27.3 million Americans have been victims of identity theft in the last 5 years. Only 52% of all ID theft victims, in 2002, discovered that they wre victims of identity theft by monitoring their accounts. 15% of all victims reported that their personal information was misused in nonfinancial ways, to obtain government documents, for example, or on tax forms.
Are there any nurses out there who are victims of identity theft? Or know someone who did?
Tell me your stories.
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Are nurses at risk for Identity Theft?
Started by identity_theft, Oct 04 2006 03:34 PM
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Posted 07 October 2006 - 06:24 PM
I recently got one of those letters that told me that a computer that had my personal information on it had been stolen, and that I should watch my credit report closely. It was an insurance billing company that had the information stored/stolen. But I know two people who have had their identities stolen. One of them will absolutely NOT write her SS number down on anything. I know she's gone round and round with the nursing office, because we're supposed to put the last 4 numbers of our social on all sorts of things, from inservice sign in sheets to timesheets. But she will not do it, (and who can blame her), so I don't know what she's worked out with the nursing office.
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