Clark Howard mentioned that the best way to protect yourself is to put a freeze on your credit.
What steps do you take to put a freeze on your credit?
the credit freeze is ONLY affective where a credit report is needed to approve an account. Identity theft victims though are more frequently hit by utility fraud, telecommunications fraud, medical fraud, criminal fraud and other types of synthetic id theft where a credit report probably will not be accessed. without the credit report being accessed, the credit freeze is useless.
So what is the best steps a person can do to protect themselves from identify theft?