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Identity Theft Protection

LifeLock Helps with Law Enforcement Training

July 6, 2010

The popular identity theft protection service, LifeLock, seems to be everywhere these days. Now, the LifeLock team is working with the FBI Law Enforcement Executive Development Association to create summits on identity theft to benefit police officers.
These summits, which will take place over the summer, will cover the following topics:
*Methods used for investigation
*New and emerging [...]

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Mailbox Security

June 23, 2010

One of the easiest ways for an identity thief to get access to your personal information is through an organization you most likely do business with every day: the U.S. Postal Service. It is very easy for a thief to find your account numbers, and sometimes even your Social Security number, just by going through [...]

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Identification for Identity Theft Victims

June 16, 2010

ID Theft ID’s?
One thing victims of identity theft may not want to see again in their lives is a photo ID since the theft of theirs may have led to weeks, months or even years of frustration. However, some victims are actually getting an additional ID that is designed to help them avoid future hassles [...]

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Seniors Beware! You Are a Prime Target for Identity Theft

June 10, 2010

Senior citizens are a lucrative market for identity thieves for three good reasons. First, they are likely to own their homes outright since they have often been paying on their mortgages for quite some time. Secondly, they have had credit for a while, which can boost their scores. Lastly, they may have a lot of [...]

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Are You Giving Away More Than You Bargained For?

April 28, 2010

The saying goes that technology moves at the speed of light. That means every time we get a new laptop, cell phone, TV or anything else electronic, pretty soon there is a new and better one out there. This leads to millions of Americans throwing their technology in the trash, giving it away or dropping [...]

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How To Get A Free Credit Report

April 14, 2010

You have the right to obtain one free credit report each year from each bureau. How important is it that you check your credit reports regularly? The short answer is – very. Identity theft is the fastest growing crime in the United States with over 10 million victims each year. And with so many options [...]

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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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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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How Secure is Your Medical Data?

October 2, 2009

There has been a lot of emphasis lately on nationalizing health records so that a person can go to any doctor in the country and he or she can just pull them up on the computer. Sure, this sounds like a good idea in theory, but it could also go horribly wrong. Consider what recently [...]

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LifeLock’s New Identity Theft Protection Service

September 3, 2009

Over the next few weeks LifeLock will be transitioning to their new identity theft protection system. The new service will replace fraud alerts and work together with LifeLocks other services including eRecon, TrueAddress and WalletLock. Though LifeLock is touting this as a change for the better, and indeed it may be, it is clear [...]

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