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Introduction to Identity Theft
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1.
Identity theft can affect your health insurance by _______.
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Putting large medical bills on your record
Altering your medical history
Both of the above
None of the above
Both of the above. These changes can cause health insurers to raise your premiums.
2.
"Smishing" is a term that refers to stealing personal information via _______.
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Social media
Texting
Email
Texting. Smishing refers to baiting people via text messages and persuading them to divulge personal or financial information.
3.
How many states have laws against identity theft?
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Only three
Eleven
All of them
Forty-five
All of them. Though the laws differ in how much they cover, all states now have laws.
4.
Gathering personal information from several people and forming a fake "person" out of it is called _______.
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Business identity theft
Synthetic identity theft
Criminal identity theft
Synthetic identity theft. The name refers to forming a new person out of several others.
5.
You should be wary of emails that claim to come from the IRS because _______.
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Those emails are watched more closely by the IRS
Those emails are tapping into your computer
The IRS does not send emails to people
The IRS does not send emails to people. Any email claiming to be from the IRS is not legitimate and should be reported.
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