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Stealing Your Life: The Ultimate Identity Theft Prevention Plan Audiobook
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When Frank Abagnale trains law enforcement officers for the FBI’s National Academy about identity theft, he asks agents for their addresses and nothing more. The next day, he returns with everything he would need to steal their lives: Social Security numbers, dates of birth, current salary, checking account numbers, the names of everyone in their family, and more. This illustrates how easy it is for anyone from anywhere in the world to assume our identity and, in a matter of hours, devastate our lives in ways that can take years to recover from.
Considering the fact that a fresh victim is hit in the US every four seconds, Stealing Your Life is the reference everyone needs, by an unsurpassed authority on the latest identity-theft schemes.
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"As the victim of identity theft, I found this book very helpful. I have always been extremely careful with my personal information and am still wondering how my information was stolen. This should be a must read for everyone....especially if you never thought it would happen to you. "
— Jennifer (5 out of 5 stars)
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“Offer[s] spine-tingling terror for anyone who has a Social Security number and birth date.”
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“This heart-pounding guide drives home the point that identity theft can come from any direction at any time.”
— Publishers Weekly -
“Abagnale explains how frighteningly easy it is to open bank accounts and credit cards in someone else’s name.”
— Booklist -
“Abagnale gives twenty easy steps to safeguard your identity and credit.”
— Booklist
Stealing Your Life Listener Reviews
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" Solid book on Identity theft, but a lot of it could be gotten more easily online. "
— Rob, 11/15/2013 -
" If you have worries about identity theft, read this book! "
— William, 9/26/2013 -
" This a book everybody should read anyone can be a victim today even kids we need to know how to avoid identity theft. "
— Beatriz, 9/10/2013 -
" Abagnale describes in this book on the dangers and techniques of preventing Identity Theft. It's amazing on how we make it so easy for criminals to gain private information. "
— Jordan, 8/4/2013 -
" As the victim of identity theft, I found this book very helpful. I have always been extremely careful with my personal information and am still wondering how my information was stolen. This should be a must read for everyone....especially if you never thought it would happen to you. "
— Jennifer, 10/19/2012 -
" By the author of Catch Me If You Can, this book is a how-to for avoiding and combating identity theft. It offered good tips on how to protect myself, some of which I adopted, but that doesn't make it a terribly wonderful read. "
— Jwjohnsen, 8/30/2012 -
" I gave this book 4 stars for its information, not for its style. Although most suggestions are standard safety features, he does have some good inside info. "
— Brian, 6/8/2012 -
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— iSekurity, 5/22/2012 -
" It is definitely not a literature masterpiece but great guide to make us aware if the identity theft. It can happen to any of us and only our combine efforts can mitigate the risks and impacts on our lives. I will recommend it to all my friends and family that live in US. "
— Kat, 4/26/2012 -
" This book was surprisingly dull. For a man whose life story was made into a rather entertaining movie and who also gives a pretty good interview, he sure wrote a surprisingly bland book. It wasn't bad, nor badly written, just not particularly compelling. -cg "
— Carissa, 4/10/2012 -
" A real eye opener. If you haven't taken steps to protect your personal info, you will after reading this. It covers the obvious things you probably know and then digs deeper into things you'd never think of. Pretty scary stuff! "
— Janice, 5/22/2011 -
" No one can hide from identity theft, not even the dead! The best defense is constant surveillance of your credit report. There are many other valuable tips in this book, but this one is key. The author tells you how to do this free online. Well worth reading! "
— Jim, 5/15/2011 -
" Awesome advice! "
— Kennan, 1/30/2011 -
" Abagnale describes in this book on the dangers and techniques of preventing Identity Theft. It's amazing on how we make it so easy for criminals to gain private information. "
— Jordan, 11/28/2010 -
" Solid book on Identity theft, but a lot of it could be gotten more easily online. "
— Rob, 3/18/2009 -
" If you have worries about identity theft, read this book! "
— William, 2/25/2009 -
" No one can hide from identity theft, not even the dead! The best defense is constant surveillance of your credit report. There are many other valuable tips in this book, but this one is key. The author tells you how to do this free online. Well worth reading! <br/> "
— Jim, 9/16/2008 -
" By the author of Catch Me If You Can, this book is a how-to for avoiding and combating identity theft. It offered good tips on how to protect myself, some of which I adopted, but that doesn't make it a terribly wonderful read. "
— Jwjohnsen, 4/11/2008 -
" I really enjoyed what I did read of this book but once I put it down I had a hard time convincing myself to pick it up again. "
— Mary, 2/5/2008 -
" A real eye opener. If you haven't taken steps to protect your personal info, you will after reading this. It covers the obvious things you probably know and then digs deeper into things you'd never think of. Pretty scary stuff! "
— Janice, 12/5/2007
About Frank W. Abagnale
Frank W. Abagnale, alias Frank Williams, Robert Conrad, Frank Adams, and Robert Monjo, was one of the most daring con men, forgers, imposters, and escape artists in history. In his brief but notorious criminal career, Abagnale donned a pilot’s uniform and copiloted a Pan Am jet, masqueraded as the supervising resident of a hospital, practiced law without a license, passed himself off as a college sociology professor, and cashed over $2.5 million in forged checks, all before he was twenty-one. Known by the police of twenty-six foreign countries and all fifty states as “the Skywayman,” Abagnale lived a sumptuous life on the lam—until the law caught up with him. Now he is recognized as the nation’s leading authority on financial foul play.
About Raymond Todd
Raymond Todd is an actor and director in the theater as well as a poet and documentary filmmaker. He plays jazz trombone for the Leatherstocking quartet, an ensemble that gets its name from one of his favorite Blackstone narrations, The Deerslayer. Todd lives in New York.