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保护好你的身份资料
七招教你个人资料避免被盗
Protecting Your Good Name
Seven tips for preventing others from stealing your identity
August 17th 2006

Picture this: You carefully fill out an application for your very first credit card. Later you receive ontification that you’ve been turned down because of bad credit. The letter states that you already own US$30,000 on several cards! After some initial confusion, you realize someone has stolen your identity!
可以想象一下，你已经很小心地填好你在银行申请信用卡的表格，但不久，你就收到银行的通知书，你被拒申请信用卡。根据通知书的陈述；你被告知，你已拥有数张信用卡，而透（偷）支金额达3万美金。最初，你感到很迷惑，但很快你就会感觉到你的一些个人身份资料被盗。
Identity theft consists of stealing someone’s personal information for various dishonest purposes. Last year in Shanghai, a man was arrested for stealing the identities of 47 people. Before he was caught, he made credit card charges totaling US$22,195.
身份资料盗贼专门由一些盗取人们的个人资料的坏家伙所组成，他们怀有各种不良的企图。去年在上海，警方逮捕了一名男子，他曾盗取47个人的身份资料。在他被捕之前，他已经伪造信用卡向银行骗取了金额高达22，195美元。
In 2003, identity theft increased by 79 percent in the United States. And the crime is spreading in Asia and Europe, too. It is quickly becoming one of the world’s fastest growing crimes.
在美国，2003年，身份资料盗贼的人数上升百分之70。而且这种罪案迅速蔓延至亚洲和欧洲。这种犯罪手法迅速成为全世界增长最快的犯罪案件。
Thieves are becoming increasingly inventive in finding ways to steal your identity. Personal information is frequently stolen form some of the following sources:
这些犯罪分子，日夜创新变换各种手法来盗取你的个人身份资料。从下面的一些渠道，你可以清楚地知道个人的资料是如何迅速被盗：
 Personal and financial papers thrown away in outdoor trash cans.
 ID numbers, driver’s licenses and credit cards
 Information stored in personal cell phones, PDA’s and computers
 “Phishing” sites.
* 私人的资料或是财务金融文件资料随便丢弃在室外的垃圾箱。
* 身份证号码，驾驶证或信用卡。
* 手机里储存的个人资料，个人数字助理（掌上电脑）或其它电脑的资料被犯罪分子套取（俗称网络钓鱼） 

Word Bank
Notification (n)通知书
Tom received notification that he was accepted into the university.
Initial (adj)最初的、一开始的
At the news of our son’s wedding plans, our initial surprise was soon replaced by joy.
Inventive (adj)有创意的
Patsy uses some new and inventive methods to teach her student.
ID [identification] (n)身份
All of the workers were given new ID badges.

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8/17Phishing(n)网络钓鱼
ID thieves use phishing sites to try and steal personal information.
Statement (n)（银行的）对帐单、结帐单
Nancy didn’t receive her monthly bank statement.