We all have enough to worry about and better things to deal with — the last thing you need is a shadowy hacker opening a new bank account or credit card in your name. Yet identity theft and financial fraud are on the rise. In one year alone during the COVID-19 pandemic, from 2019 to 2020, identity theft cases in the U.S. increased by a whopping 45%, according to the Federal Trade Commission.
The finale song of the 2015 musical Hamilton, based on the life of Alexander Hamilton, asks, “And when you're gone, who remembers your name? Who keeps your flame? Who tells your story?” Today, there are a number of new tools that we can use to tell the story ourselves and help our friends and loved ones do the same.
