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Protect Yourself on Facebook Farmville, Mafia Wars and Zoo World

August 31, 2010

If you’re on Facebook, love them or hate them, you’ve likely heard of games like Farmville, Mafia Wars and Zoo World. If not, your kids have heard of them. These mini versions of simulators are all applications that are used by a whole lot of people – think tens of millions. If you use these [...]

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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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Is Banking on Your Cellphone Safe?

May 13, 2010

It’s no longer debatable whether or not cell phones have become almost as essential to American life as water and air. You can use them to watch movies, to send pictures, to make purchases and even to bank. Since you need passwords for the last two of these activities that makes them of special interest [...]

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Fraud Alerts 101

May 4, 2010

Whether you’ve been a victim of identity theft or you’re just worried that it might have happened to you, you have the legal right, per the FACT Act, to place a fraud alert on your credit file. The Fact Act states that to place a fraud alert on your file you must have “a good [...]

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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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It’s Census Time. Here Are A Few Identity Theft Precautions

March 26, 2010

Once again, it’s a census year in the United States. Since the task of counting all of the citizens of this great country of ours takes almost literally all year long, it’s likely a census taker will be visiting your home soon – especially if you don’t return a census form you receive by postal [...]

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Tips to Keep an Identity Thief Away From Your Tax Refund

March 23, 2010


Any time is a good time for identity thieves to get personal information from people who leave papers containing such information in unlocked mailboxes, but no time is better than tax time, when we receive a number of items that have our names, birthdates and Social Security numbers on them. One way to try to [...]

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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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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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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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