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Hello and welcome to the first Real Story Interactive. Tonight we're discussing just one of the items in tonight's Real Story: identity theft.

Pensioner Derek Bond is the latest victim of this disturbing crime. Although his case is unusual, and that's why it made the headlines, thousands of people across the country have had their identity stolen. It's done by criminals who want to steal their money, use their credit card, or buy items from shops without paying for them.

The industry estimates it costs nearly one point four billion pounds a year.

So, what can we do to stop it?

With me tonight to discuss identity theft and to answer your questions are Tom Craig, a former Scotland Yard detective who now runs his own security consultancy, and Brenda Rost from Experian, the company that holds credit records on all of us.

And we want to hear, of course, from you with questions or views on identity theft. You can email via the website w w w dot b b c dot co dot u k forward slash real story, or you can text us on zero double seven three six one hundred one hundred.

But let's start by talking to Tom Craig about just how common this is.

Narrator: Tom, we say Derek Bond's case was unusual, but do many people go through something like he did?

Tom Craig: Yes, there are quite a number of people who do, not being locked up for three weeks, but certainly going through the experience at the airport, by being taken to one side and accused of something that they clearly were not involved in.

Narrator: Mm. And how does this happen? Presumably because a criminal has got hold of their identity and used it. In Derek Bond's case for fourteen years, without them knowing about it.

Tom Craig: Absolutely correct.

Narrator: And how do they do that?

Tom Craig: Well, it's actually quite easy to do by taking letters from boxes, by going to the library, by reading a newspaper. There are so many different ways that you can actually obtain someone's identity and use it because very few people actually check that it is the genuine person that they are dealing with.

Narrator: Mm. And Brenda Rost from Experian, obviously what happened to Derek Bond is a very serious crime where a criminal used his identity for many years and committed serious crimes. But that's not what happens in the day-to-day identity theft, if I can call it that, where people steal your identity just to buy a hi-fi or something like that. How does that happen?

Brenda Rost: Well, basically, it is quite similar to a certain extent, because your identity is essentially a combination of documents. It's your birth certificate, passport, driving license, your name on the electoral roll. And all the fraudster needs to do is to put together a combination of these documents and essentially they can be you.

Narrator: Mm. And so, when you've got that information, you can then go to a shop, present yourself, pretend to be Brenda Rost or Paul Lewis, and buy something. How do you then get it delivered to the right address, or do you just walk away with it?

Brenda Rost: Well, yes, fraudsters will actually set up accommodation addresses. They'll set up false addresses. What they'll do is they'll get a certain amount of information that they know to be true about the victim that they're impersonating. And then they'll also put a bit more information on, such as an alternative address. And often they'll get goods delivered to that address.

Narrator: Well, we'll talk about some of the solutions later. But we've got emails coming in. We've had one from Anthony Heavey who says, 'I recently had a theft of my national record of achievement from my bag at a skate park. What can I do to find this or prevent it being used fraudulently? Please answer this, I'm very worried.' I'm not surprised, Tom.

Tom Craig: Well, that's a difficult one. Not least because there are