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not give out your SSN unecessarily. freeze your credit. pay for monitoring service. pay for a service to delete you from other public data sets eg fastpeoplesearch.com.

there's not nothing you can do.

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Or I could just do nothing, it's worked so far. When someone inevitably steals my ID, just use the Shaggy Defense, "It wasn't me"

Depends on the assets that you have or how public of a figure you are really, being targetted for kidnapping, break n enter, or home robbery is no joke. Especially if you have a family.

You need to take the backseat and let the grownups deal with this stuff.

It works until it doesn't.

Doesnt matter how hard ya beat ya dog. If ya dont feed it, itll come home.

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