Instead, the fraudsters steal names and Social Security numbers by the hundreds, or even the thousands, often with the help of corrupt insiders with accessto personal data, including tax preparers, health care billing clerks and state employees.
So rather than steal identities wallet by wallet, or computer by computer, they lift names and Social Security numbers by the dozens, or the hundreds, or the thousands, often with the help of corrupt insiders with accessto personal data, including tax preparers, health care billing clerks, state employees and debt collectors.