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Black Friday In-Store Shopping Identity Theft Tips

November 22, 2011

Identity Theft Tips for In-Store Holiday Shopping Black Friday, November 25th 2011 Three days from now, when doing your holiday shopping in the store this Black Friday, it’s very important to remember toprotect yourself from identity theft. Follow these tips to help do so: *Be wary of crowds. When you’re in a packed house, say [...]

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TrustedID Acquires Unsubscribe

November 17, 2011

TrustedID does it again and now delivers security ratings on over 100,000 social network “apps” With the acquisition of Unsubscribe.com they have found yet another way to help protect consumers from identity theft and for those families who have teenagers who join any FaceBook app without worrying about who they are giving their information to…. [...]

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Fanatic Football Fans Easy Target for Identity Theft

November 15, 2011

Football season is in full swing, which makes it a great time to think about security, and particularly identity theft protection, while you’re at the game or at a bar. Even though all football fans seem friendly enough – unless they are rooting for rival teams – it’s easy to get distracted and to get [...]

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Be Prepared, In Case Identity Theft Happens to You

November 8, 2011

Before identity theft happens to you – well, in case identity theft happens to you – you should have a game plan in place on what to do about it. It does affect close to 10 million Americans each year so this really is something you should think about. To be more specific, you should [...]

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Identity Thieves Don’t Learn Their Lesson

November 1, 2011

Sadly, and disturbingly, a lot of identity thieves don’t learn their lesson the first time, even after they have served jail time for their crimes. For example, Robert Delgado of California was already on parole for identity theft when police found personal information for over 300,000 individuals on his computer. He came up with quite [...]

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An Invitation to Identity Theft?

October 25, 2011

Sometimes people disagree on what constitutes a risk of identity theft. Consider the following story and decide where you stand on the issue. A former county election auditor in Washington State is upset with the current auditor’s decision to implement a cost saving measure on mail-in ballots. This measure requires voters to place their ballots [...]

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What To Do if You’re a Victim of Old Fashioned Check Fraud

October 19, 2011

A lot has been written about what to do if you are a victim of a phishing scam or of credit card fraud. However, you don’t see too much lately about what to do if you are a victim of old fashioned check fraud, which happens when a thief does one of the following things: [...]

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Are Credit Cards the Biggest Identity Theft Problem?

October 11, 2011

One argument that people make against purchasing an identity theft protection plan is that their credit cards already offer such a service for free. If, say, Visa or MasterCard notices purchases being made that are a little out of the ordinary, it contacts the card owner and sometimes blocks the card. This is great – [...]

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Social Security Numbers: The Real Story

October 4, 2011

If you’ve been keeping up with this blog at all, you know that identity thieves love Social Security numbers. The SSN alone is considered by thieves to be the Golden Key to the Palace. They can use them to open accounts, get passports, and even obtain a drivers license. How wonderful! But did you know [...]

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A Very Serious Case of Medical Identity Theft

September 27, 2011

All cases of medical identity theft are quite serious, but a recent one takes the cake. It could have been a matter of life or death, literally. A so-called doctor in Toms River, NJ, allegedly set up a company called Visiting Doctors of New Jersey. The premise was to provide medical professionals to people who [...]

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