How did people in the past prevent identity theft? I mean before the photos and new secure technology on identity documents were available?

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How did people in the past prevent identity theft? I mean before the photos and new secure technology on identity documents were available?

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I think it’s important that identity theft was less useful for fraud purpose than it is today, but identity theft did happen a lot, as did simply reinventing one self.

You see a lot of records of soldiers from the 1810s all the way up to 1930s where it is noted that the person served in the army under one name and then a few years later renlisted possibly to a different branch under a new name