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How to avoid identity theft

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Your front door has a lock on it to prevent complete strangers from wandering in and rummaging through your drawers. But you also need to protect your personal details too, not with locks perhaps, but just as carefully.

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Andrew Bibby and Paul Ticher
October 2009

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