The short answer is that identity theft is a crime. Identity theft and identity fraud are terms used to refer to all types of crime in which someone wrongfully obtains and uses another person's personal data in some way that involves fraud or deception, typically for economic gain.

Review the information related to identity theft below.

• Identity Theft https://people.howstuffworks.com/crime-prevention-channel.htm
• How Identify Theft Workshttps://money.howstuffworks.com/identity-theft.htm
• Any additional resource of your choice

Directions:

• Using Microsoft Office PowerPoint, create a one-slide poster presenting information from the sites above and/or your Internet research. You can design your poster using a PowerPoint background style, text, interesting images and graphics (required to meet your student's learning styles), and even educational cartoons. The poster should be a usable classroom resource.