A 22-year-old assistant manager with a financial institution in Manchester, never gave much thought to identity fraud until he received an email last November from Alliance & Leicester telling him that his 'application for a credit card was being processed'. Marc hadn't applied for a credit card so he contacted A&L, who immediately cancelled the application. Unfortunately the criminal - who had got hold of Marc's date of birth, email and postal addresses among other bits of key information, such as his salary... read full review »