Identities for Sale

When Fran Langton* bought a Nissan from a Baltimore area dealership, and arranged a car loan to pay for it, everything seemed to go smoothly. But six months later she received a call from the Detroit police: her Nissan auto financing paperwork — complete with Social Security number, bank account numbers, credit card numbers and date of birth — had turned up halfway across the nation in the hands of a busted fraud ring.

It was then that Langton received a crash course in identity theft, learning that the thieves had used her name to purchase a pricey Dell computer, open ... Back to article