ROCHESTER, N.Y. – Last year, 30% of Americans reported having their identities stolen, with credit card fraud being the most common type of identity theft in New York, numbering almost 27,000 cases.
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"One of the reasons that children's identities are so appealing to the bad actors is because kids don't engage in the world the same way adults do," said Velasquez.