Stealing Your Life
The Ultimate Identity Theft Prevention Plan

While the earlier book, Catch me if you can, was a marvel of chicanery, deception and cleverness, this was a drag.......more

This is an outstanding book on the serious problem of personal identity theft. Abagnale gives twenty solid recommendations on how to minimize the threat. He says minimize because no one can completely stop active inventive uncooperative criminals from committing their crimes. Worse yet are terrorist......more

I was given this book by my financial advisor, and unfortunately it reads as very dated. A number of the tips are good ones, but ones that have already been drilled into me by my company's computer security team. The author spends a lot of time talking about fraud as related to checks - when is the......more

Solid guide to preventing identity theft at the time it was published. At this point, even though we're only a handful of years out, it serves as insight into the evolution of identity theft at a particular period right at the beginning of the facebook revolution. Many of the insights he suggests ha......more

Noone is immune from identity theft. It is a growing problem and can destroy people's lives overnight without perpetrator and victim ever meeting. Abagnale uses 'Stealing Your Life' to highlight the dangers of the internet in identity theft and suggests ways to strengthen protections when living a fi......more