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What if My Personally Identifiable Information is Compromised?

February 2, 2012

Has My Information Been Compromised? When your personally identifiable information, or PII for short, is compromised, that means that it has been disclosed accidentally or on purpose without your consent. Often this happens because you responded to a phishing email, were the victim of a data breach, had something containing your information stolen, or a [...]

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A Few Uses For A Stolen Identity

January 25, 2012

Identity theft happens a lot – and I mean a lot … we’re talking about nine million American victims every year. But have you ever thought about why it is so common? What do these crooks do with all that personal information anyway? Lots of different things, here are a few: **They commit credit card [...]

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40 Million Social Security Numbers Assigned to More Than One American

January 18, 2012

Having your Social Security number used by someone else doesn’t seem too likely does it? It may seem to you that this crime is pretty uncommon. It’s not. ID Analytics, a credit fraud information service, puts that number at one in seven Americans. This includes people whose SSNs were used by strangers and those whose [...]

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Identity Theft Victims Expect Assistance From Their Bank

January 12, 2012

While doing some research on the Internet, I came across a somewhat obvious fact that had not seemed obvious to me until that moment. According to bankinfosecurity.com, when an individual experiences identity theft, he or she usually does not continue to do business with a financial institution if the financial institution is at fault. Makes [...]

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Financail Peace of Mind for the New Year

January 1, 2012

January is a time when things start to settle down and it’s time to take stock of your life for the new year – and where you see it going. One of the things you should take stock of is your finances, and what you can do to make your money life better. Should you [...]

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LifeLock Recognized Again by Lead411

December 27, 2011

There is no doubt that identity theft protection services are growing in popularity, and for one major reason – they work. LifeLock, one of the industry leaders, made the Lead411 list of the 200 companies that had the largest percentage of revenue growth from 2008 to 2010. This is the second time LifeLock has been [...]

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Report Shows Identity Theft Increasing

December 19, 2011

Think identity theft is a problem that is slowly fading away? Think again. Unfortunately, according to many recent studies, it continues to be on the rise. According to one of these studies, conducted by the U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics this past year, identity theft underwent a 33 percent increase between 2005 and 2010. Not [...]

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New Identity Theft Tax Laws

December 13, 2011

Tax time has long been a popular time for identity theft, with forms filled with personal information flying through the U.S. postal system. Some of them come from legitimate taxpayers and some of them come from individuals pretending to be legitimate taxpayers and looking to cash in on ill-begotten refunds. To help individuals who have [...]

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Foster Children at Far Greater Risk of Identity Theft

December 7, 2011

While adults are very vulnerable to identity theft in the United States, children are vulnerable too. And even more vulnerable is a certain group of minors: foster children. According to Robert Fellmeth, who teaches law at the University of San Diego, up to 30 percent of these children become victims of identity theft before they [...]

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How to Protect Yourself from Identity Theft Online

November 28, 2011

Happy Cyber Monday! Can you believe it is almost time for holiday shopping again? The season seems to come earlier and earlier every year – partially due to department stores chomping at the bit to get the music playing and the decorations hung – with the exception of Nordstrom’s, which promises to hold out this [...]

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