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Abstract: 

Identity theft has become the number one fraud crime perpetrated against vulnerable adults nationwide. Although they are not the largest cohort to be subjected to this crime, in part, because their financial lives are, for most elderly, growing more simplified and less diversified, elderly adults are among the most vulnerable groups. The effect of financial crimes can be more devastating to the elderly than to younger victims, who have decades to rectify and stabilize their financial situations and often have a wider array of resources from which to draw. Part I of this article enumerates recent state legislation regarding identity theft. Part II, in the next issue of VED, will cover legislation from additional states, and Part III will cover federal legislation.

Keywords: statutory construct of crime of forgery; statutory construction of taking identity of person of entity; statutory construction of possession of scanning device or re-encoder; statutory definition of restricted use of social security number

Affiliations:  1: NAPSA; 2: SUNY Brockport.