We are reading reports these days that scams involving identity theft are higher today than ever before. The idea of identity theft to some people seems either downright sleazy (think con artists rooting about in garbage cans for scraps of information) or plain high-tech (school kids who are computer wizards using their spare time “gainfully”). You think about all the little clues and leads and investigative work they put in to take you to the cleaners. Not to put a damper on these entertaining visions or anything, but actually, a large number of identity theft cases happen only through people who can’t help being really careless - you know the kind - people who leave their laptops in the waiting lounge at the airport to go to the bathroom, or silly printer errors, a purse sometimes carelessly left about.