What are the steps I should take if I’m a victim of identity theft?
If you are a victim of identity theft, take the following four steps as soon as possible, and keep a record with the details of your conversations and copies of all correspondence.
1. Place a fraud alert on your credit reports, and review [...]

City boy: ‘We were aggressive with our sales pitch and didn’t give risk warnings if we could avoid it’. Photograph: Grant Smith/Rex Features
Pacific Continental Securities was possibly the UK’s most notorious firm of stockbrokers. Its team of young salesmen used high-pressure tactics to lure clients into buying shares that for most investors were almost a [...]