Rutgers offers students, staff education, assistance with ID theft.(Identity Theft)

Campus Crime, September, 2005

Rutgers University (N.J.) is offering students and faculty education on preventing identity theft and help if they become victims of the crime, which is a rapidly growing problem in the United States. Identity theft occurs when criminals steal personal

information--such as names, addresses and Social Security numbers--and open new accounts in the identity of their victims. Identity thieves often rack up debt in their victims' names, with the victims being none-the-wiser until they try to obtain new credit and are denied.

A new state law aimed at curbing identity theft requires Rutgers to stop posting student Social Security numbers on class rosters, student identification cards, grade lists and directories by January 26, 2006. The Rutgers initiative...

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