While a laptop left on display is a clear enticement to burglars, it's not just the hardware they are after. These days criminals can make more money from selling your identity than they can just through stolen goods, but some simple precautions can protect you from financial pain.

Aside from the obvious concealment of passports and laptops, try and declutter your paperwork by filing or shredding documents with details such as your date of birth, address, full name etc, and cut up old bank cards and forms of ID. Never keep them all in the same place and make sure they're out of sight.

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