Once they have your personal information, identity thieves use it in a variety of ways.

What if an identity thief is creating credit problems for me?

Armed with the knowledge of how to protect yourself and take action, you can make identity thieves' jobs much more difficult.

It's an identity thief, just waiting to steal from you.

Such information is used by identity thieves to commit tax fraud.

In turn, those services may be - and some have been - penetrated by identity thieves.

And authorities say that the dead have been favorite targets of identity thieves for years.

God only knows how far identity thieves will go.

Identity thieves have put a more literal spin on it, though.

The Internet is a great place for identity thieves.