---
title: "SSPFL12: Identity Theft Overview (Georgia Social Studies standard)"
code: SSPFL12
cite_as: Georgia Standards of Excellence, Social Studies, SSPFL12
subject: social_studies
grades:
  - high-school
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# SSPFL12: Identity Theft Overview

Explain sources of and protection against identity theft.

- Subject: Social Studies
- Appears in: High School, https://georgiahomeroom.org/standards/social_studies/high-school.md

## Expectations

- **SSPFL12.a**: Describe common ways identity theft happens including dumpster diving, skimming, phishing, stealing, and hacking.
- **SSPFL12.b**: Analyze ways to protect yourself from identity theft including shredding important documents, not opening attachments to unknown emails, not revealing personal information over the phone or email, using secure networks, regularly checking your credit score, and changing passwords on accounts.
- **SSPFL12.c**: Describe steps that should be taken if a person is the victim of identity theft including getting replacement credit cards, freezing credit histories, alerting appropriate officials, and changing passwords.
- **SSPFL12.d**: Describe the basic characteristics of investment scams such as Ponzi schemes, pump and dumps, and “advance fee” scams and how to avoid them.

## Georgia Milestones coverage

No Georgia Milestones blueprint cites this standard.

Source: Georgia Standards of Excellence, published by the Georgia Department of Education at case.georgiastandards.org.