United States Secret Service

The United States Secret Service (USSS) serves a dual mission of (1) protecting the nation’s financial infrastructure and payment systems to safeguard the economy and (2) protecting national leaders. In carrying out the former part of this mission, the USSS conducts criminal investigations into counterfeiting, financial crimes, computer fraud, and computer-based attacks on the nation’s financial and critical infrastructures. The Secret Service has 35 Financial Crimes Task Forces and 24 Electronic Fraud Task Forces that investigate identity theft, among with numerous other crimes.