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Credit inquiries on your report that you don't recognize. According to www.justice.gov, Identity theft and identity fraud are terms used to refer to all types of crime in which someone wrongfully obtains and uses another person 's personal data in some way that involves fraud or deception, typically for economic gain. The Department of Justice prosecutes cases of identity theft and fraud under a variety of federal statutes. In the fall of 1998, for example, Congress passed the Identity Theft and Assumption Deterrence Act. This legislation created a new offense of identity theft, which prohibits " knowingly transfer [ ring ] or us [ ing ], without lawful authority, a means of identification of another person with the intent to commit, or to aid or abet, any unlawful activity that constitute