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Quite simply the spoof is designed to steal your identity at some point and and the criminals involved will then commit fraud using your identity. This crime is on rapid increase, in America alone Online Identity Theft complaints to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) rose by 87.7% in 2002 on the previous year.
