When Candida L. Gutierrez's identity was stolen, the
thief didn't limit herself to opening fraudulent credit and bank
accounts. She assumed Gutierrez's persona completely, using it to get a
job, a driver's license, a mortgage and even medical care for the birth
of two children.
All the while, the crook claimed the real
Gutierrez was the one who had stolen her identity. The women's unusual
tug-of-war puts a face on "total identity theft," a brazen form of the
crime in which con artists go beyond financial fraud to assume many
other aspects of another person's life.
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