Why Do College Students Make Ideal Targets for Identity Theft?
College students are, as a norm, less attentive to their personal credit record than older consumers, let’s not forget about all of that studying going on. Lack of assets at this time in their life gives a college student a false sense of security regarding the safety of their personal information. Also, for a free $5 t-shirt Credit card companies market to and heavily recruit the college students, mostly the 18-29 year old market and are free to extend credit to this age bracket. I admit to getting a free t-shirt in my day (it had our logo on it it!) College students are some of the perfect candidates for identity theft. Well-seasoned identity criminals know it could be months and months before a college student even realizes that his/her identity has been stolen.
