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Let's hope this never happens to you: You have a few free minutes so you decide to go online to check your brokerage account information. Your account balance is much lower than you expect - and you know that something is wrong. You see that there were several wire transfers of money from your account to an outside checking account. But you never authorized those transactions - instead, an identity thief did, and that thief has now stolen your cash as well as your personal information. As the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission warns, if you don't take steps to protect your personal information when you go online, you could end up telling a story of identity theft just like this ...
from http://www.investoreducation.org
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