Stealing Your Life: The Ultimate Identity Theft Prevention Plan Book Review

With identity theft being such a prevalent problem, I decided to read "Stealing Your Life: The Ultimate Identity Theft Prevention Plan". This book brings to light the many ways that identity theft happens, who the criminals are, and how to combat or prevent identity theft from happening to you.

This book was written by Frank Abagnale, author of "Catch Me If You Can" and "The Art of the Steal". He has worked closely with the FBI and various other law enforcement agencies that deal with the problems caused by counterfeiting and identity theft. His career as a fraud fighting consultant surprisingly has its beginning as a check counterfeiter and forger. As early as the 1980's, when identity theft wasn't a household name, Frank Abagnale was writing about it.

"Stealing Your Life: The Ultimate Identity Theft Prevention Plan" is entertaining as well as enlightening. The book has many true stories of how the identity thieves have caused chaos in the lives of others. There is also quite a few hilarious accounts of dumb criminals that got caught.

However, it is the how to protect yourself that makes this book so important. While there is countless ways mentioned throughout the book, there is a list of 20 most important ways to keep your identity away from identity thieves. While twenty ways might seem to be more than enough, Abagnale knows that each and every one is important. Also, while you might feel safe and secure in the knowledge that you are doing ten of the advised actions, an identity thief feels safe and secure knowing that ten is not good enough.