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Tax and Identity Fraud are not anything new - but the way they are accomplished has changed significantly.

Sure you can physically intercept mail - but there is a huge difference in magnitude. I wager you could not in any practical way intercept millions (or even thousands) of paper records without being traced.

That's why these poorly protected digital records are such a gold mine.



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