STRIKE BACK - DEFEAT IDENTITY THEFT NOW
For the eighth straight year, the Federal Trade Commission has labeled identity theft as the fastest growing crime in the United States. That is eight years too long! With millions of new victims each year, thieves have made statistics out of children, the elderly, the rich and the poor.
Since 2005, more than 230 million Americans (80,000 people a day) have received notice that their personal information has gone missing, causing panic, frustration and stress to those affected.
Recently, Congress has taken steps to provide consumers with basic safeguards to protect personal information and prevent identity theft, however much more needs to be done. As consumers we need to be united in urging Congress to provide the following:
» Request stronger penalties that will prosecute identity thieves
» Assign more funding to law enforcement to fight this crime
» Enact laws to prevent agencies from selling personal information
» Demand that the Social Security Administration create a checks-and-balances system for the correct use of Social Security Numbers.
Join LifeLock® and urge your Congressional Representatives to enact identity theft protection legislation that makes sense and really works.
For the eighth straight year, the Federal Trade Commission has labeled identity theft as the fastest growing crime in the United States. That is eight years too long! With millions of new victims each year, thieves have made statistics out of children, the elderly, the rich and the poor.
Since 2005, more than 230 million Americans (80,000 people a day) have received notice that their personal information has gone missing, causing panic, frustration and stress to those affected.
Recently, Congress has taken steps to provide consumers with basic safeguards to protect personal information and prevent identity theft, however much more needs to be done. As consumers we need to be united in urging Congress to provide the following:
» Request stronger penalties that will prosecute identity thieves
» Assign more funding to law enforcement to fight this crime
» Enact laws to prevent agencies from selling personal information
» Demand that the Social Security Administration create a checks-and-balances system for the correct use of Social Security Numbers.
Join LifeLock® and urge your Congressional Representatives to enact identity theft protection legislation that makes sense and really works.
We the undersigned are writing to urge you to support comprehensive legislation to protect consumers from the growing threat of identity theft.
For the eighth straight year, the Federal Trade Commission has labeled identity theft as the fastest growing crime in the United States and I believe that this is eight years too long! With millions of new victims each year, thieves have made statistics out of children, the elderly, the rich and the poor. When will this stop?
Since 2005 more than 230 million Americans - that's 80,000 people a day - have received notice their personal information has gone missing, causing panic, frustration and stress to those affected.
It's time for Congress to give Americans meaningful identity theft protections. Insist on stronger penalties when third party agencies lose my personal information. Demand stronger penalties to prosecute identity thieves and curb the crime. Assign more funding to law enforcement to fight this battle. Enact laws to prevent agencies from selling my personal information. Demand that the Social Security Administration create a checks-and-balances system for the correct use of Social Security Numbers.
We are hopeful that this issue is as important to you as it is to your constituents. We would like to see Congress take a stand on this issue and maybe in 2009, identity theft will no longer be the fastest growing crime in the U.S.
It is ridiculous that we live in a world where this is taking place. I think crimes should be paid for. Eye for eye, and see how they feel when it is done to them. Throw the book at them.
I respectfully request that laws be enacted to prevent agencies from selling personal information, provide for stronger penalties, and that the Social Security Administration create checks and balances for the correct use of SSN's.
Sometimes the best lesson is learned when it happens to you....
It's obvious, the way the world is now, that security is too lax and we are all vulnerable. It is unacceptable.
Identity theft is ruining the lives of thousands of Americans. W must do something to combat it.
People work too hard to have someone steal everything from them. We need stronger laws to protect the citizen an take away some of the fear. Saw about this on the Montel Williams show an relized we need to do something to protect ourselves.
It is a crime that we have to live in fear of using the internet, our credit card, social security numbers (which are spelled out on our Medicare and insurance cards) in order to purdhase our required services.
I feel that we should not be scared of what people see online. I do not feel safe making payment online and that is a horrible thing. Our representitives should try to make our lives better and one way is to help us protect ourselves from people trying to steal our identities.
Our reprecentatves should quit draging there feet and get bills passed to protect every one against identy theft and give out 50 year sentices to the theif plus a $50,000 fine for every victem.
I will be a grad student in the Fall of 2008. This time around for graduate school, I had to take out, for my first year over 30,000 dollars in federal loans to pay for school. Knowing that I'll be responsible for this debt is a huge responsibility. However, what really causes me to lose sleep at night is the thought that one day I could wake up and find myself responsible for debt accrued by a con artist or identity theif. Please make the laws that govern the passage of personal information from one hand to another stricter. And please make the punishments more harsh for those who use this information to break the law such that potential identity theifs can be deterred.
It is the responsibility of our government to protect the citizens of this country, foreign and domestic. Why does this should we stop the protection when it comes to identiy theft? Please take action and help protect not only yourself but your children and theirs. Thank you
Offences of Idenification Theft need to be prosicuted hard for the safty of the youth and comming generations!
Something needs to be done to protect the citizens that work hard for the things that they have. It is upsetting to know that some people work hard to cheat others and steal from them. This is unacceptable and there needs to be a strict punishment for them. Right now, there is really not much stopping them from trying to steal and live off of other people's identity.
it looks like you are doing a good thing. I just saw it today on Montel show. James Holloway
I am a member of LifeLock since December/2007. As a senior and a widow, I have felt more at ease knowing someone is watching out for me. Congress needs to get involved and make laws protecting each and every one of us from birth until death and make the penalties for identity theft such that such crimes will be eliminated!
Jan.2006 my car was broken into and my new driver's license SS#ID voter's registration along w/my children's & grandchildren's SS#'s date of births were stolen, to my knowlege they have not been used and they all need to be protected, no one should suffer at the cost of any criminals warped mind
CONGRESS - DO SOMETHING NOW, STOP WASTING TIME. IDENTITY THEFT IS SUPPOSED TO BE THE NUMBER ONE CRIME IN THE COUNTRY - WHERE ARE YOU GUYS??
I worked too hard for my credit number. Until recently I was too poor to steal. Now I have a few bucks, I want to keep them.
I am a victim of identity theft. I had a bank loose a pad of my checks and a criminal used them all about town. The bank was no help and the merchants would not even call the poilce and report the fraud. I spent several weeks 8 hous a day fighting with corporate offices and the credit burroughs. Please help us victums, we can not fight back effectively!!!
IDENITY THEFT DESTROYS A PERSONS CREDIT AND LIFE. IT IS THE LOWEST FORM OF NON-VIOLENT CRIME WE FACE TODAY. PUNISHMENT AND PURSUIT SHOULD BE SERVED ACCORDINGLY BY LAW. PLEASE HELP US AND "YOUR" FAMILYS. THANK YOU!
The American public needs your help and support.
I have been a victim of identity theft 4 times. To have this happen to you is a nightmare. To this date, nothing has happened with the police reports I have filed. All the paperwork, the hours of monitoring, the stacks of credit reports are a nightmare. Please make IDENTITY THEFT a priority. Please change laws and help the police make advancements to keep this from happening. Thank You
I am really at a lost as to what to say to make Congress aware of the id theft problem. There is no reason for this to be such a major issue in 2008. Is it because our representatives are probably not the targets of scams, etc; therefore they cannot empathize with the common man? You apparently have no idea the hell the victim has to go through. Obviously id theft is quite profitable; so make the penalty stiff enough to decrease the profitablity.
Protect your citizens identity! Stop making it so easy for criminals to assume someones life. Please, take the appropriate steps immediately to ensure the identity of all Americans! I signed up for Lifelock last year for not only myself but for my children too. How terrible that our children's very name needs to be protected.
Please help stop identity theft. We need more stringent laws to help protect individuals and stronger penalties for those who offend.
Please do this for the consumer, your typical American citizen!
Please take measures to protect me and my family against intrusion into our private lives by passing strong laws to protect us.
I want to be able to do business on the Internet without fear of my life being destroyed. I have signed up for LifeLock which has greatly reduced my anxiety but feel these predators deserve much harsher penalties for their crimes.
In these times of economic crisis we need to do more now more than ever.
I am a victim of identity theft. This is very disturbing and consumes a lot of time and expense to work on rectifying. I believe it is happening to more people every minute. It seems that no one is being prosecuted for this, I never read or hear news accounts of it anyway.
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9:33 am PDT, May 9,
Linnard Childress, Washington
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We need "strong" deterrants to put an end to this nightmare.
We can't be safe if we can't keep our identity.
