Johnny May's Guide to Preventing Identity Theft.(Brief Article)(Book Review)

****# Johnny May's Guide to Preventing Identity Theft. By Johnny May, CPP; published by Security Resources Unlimited, LLC, 248/745-0286 (phone), www.identitytheftinfo.com (Web); 192 pages; $10.17.

Identity theft is one of the fastest-growing crimes worldwide, each year causing billions of dollars of losses in the United States alone. Since the damage resulting from identity theft can take years to repair, and since most losses go unrecovered, the best way to fight it is to prevent it from occurring in the first place.

Johnny May has put together a handbook for doing just that. As May emphasizes, the means of protecting oneself from identity theft have always …