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Identity Theft Can Be Taxing – Protect Your SSN

March 20, 2010

Now that 2009 has come and gone and people’s thoughts are turning to April, and not just to the beginning of the spring but to the income tax season. While everyone has some work cut out for them as far as figuring out all those brackets and deductions, your job will be 1000% harder if [...]

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The LifeLock FTC Settlement and Our Opinion

March 12, 2010

The Federal Trade Commission announced the other day that a settlement has been reached with LifeLock to the tune of $12 million. Since the breaking of this news, and partially due to a press release issued by LifeLock referencing Identity Theft Lab’s rating of them as the “Best Overall” identity protection, we have been asked [...]

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Common Passwords Can Leave You Vulnerable to Identity Theft

March 5, 2010

Do you have the password 123456 on any of your accounts? How about 224466? If you do, it’s not surprising. It is dangerous though, and you should change it right away – and not to 1234567. A recent story published in the New York Times stated that one of every five people who has an [...]

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Identity Thief Operates Credit Card Scam From Prison

February 26, 2010

If there’s any good news about identity theft, it’s that some thieves are getting prosecuted and put in jail. That doesn’t make the problem go away, though, even for some that are locked up, since a few thieves still conduct their operations from jail, with the help from accomplices on the outside of course. For [...]

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Identity Theft Statistics 2010

February 18, 2010

Think identity theft is going down due to greater vigilance and swift government action? Well, I’m sorry to tell you that this is not the case. In fact, it is just the opposite. According to Javelin Strategies, a prominent research firm that often reports on identity theft, incidences of the crime increased by 11% from [...]

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LifeLock Partners with Life Quotes to Offer Complete Identity Theft Protection

February 10, 2010

To help customers find a complete credit protection service for their personal finances, Life Quotes, Inc., an online service provider of comprehensive insurance options, have recently entered into a partnership with LifeLock, Inc., the industry leader in proactive identity theft protection, that will provide Life Quotes users LifeLock’s service at a 10% discount. [...]

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Social Security Numbers Not So Secure

January 31, 2010

So you know that identity thieves can get people’s Social Security numbers through careless treatment of Social Security cards, phishing attacks and data breaches. But did you ever consider the fact that sometimes thieves can just guess? It did to some Carnegie Mellon University researchers. These researchers determined that if someone knows a person’s birthplace [...]

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High Credit Scores = High Risk of Identity Theft

January 22, 2010

Having a high credit score, which is generally thought of as anything above 600, is usually seen as a good thing. It means you can qualify for pretty much any loan you want and get a good rate on it. However, there is one downside to being so credit savvy. You become very desirable to [...]

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LifeLock Command Center – Identity Theft Protection Beyond Credit

January 13, 2010

LifeLock launched its new service, LifeLock Command Center, in January of 2010 to help protect individuals and families from other types of identity theft beyond credit while at the same time adding enhanced credit protection. While financial identity theft will always be the biggest concern for Americans it only comprises less than a third [...]

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Kicking Out Cybersquatters

January 9, 2010

If you haven’t heard of cybersquatting, I’m sure you’ve at least seen it. It’s probably happened when you decided to guess at the website address for a popular company only to be led instead to a site full of random links, pop up ads or worse. That’s because the site is owned by a cybersquatter, [...]

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