• Dumpster diving - Searching through trash and recycling bins for personal information such as credit card statements, purchase recripts and income tax papers.
• Shoulder surfing - Confidential information such as your PIN or password can be stolen by ID theives who can look over your shoulder at and ABM or POS Terminal, or when you use a public computer, your laptop, your Blackberry or other devices in public places

Internet is a medium where you are trusting a website with the information you provide, you have no idea who this website belongs to.  Therefore:

People think their information is protected while it is sitting in their homes, which is not true.  Therefore:

• Always shred your bills, credit card offers before disposing off
• At home try to mantain a clean desk policy, to ensure your bills and other information is not lying around in the open, which makes it easy for visitors to pick up
• Never carry your SSN/SIN card in your wallet/purse
• Never provide your SSN/SIN numbers to anyone besides your TAX Agency, all other agencies need it but it is not mandatory

By the Associated Press