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Identity Theft Cases Fall But Costs Rise

August 2, 2011

There’s good news and bad news relating to identity theft. According to Javelin Strategy and Research, the good news, well, compared to previous years, is that there were only 8.1 million American adults victimized by identity theft in 2010. The bad news is that (a) that is still a whole lot of people and (b) [...]

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Identity Thieves Face Harsh Penalties

July 26, 2011

While a lot of identity thieves probably think they are above the law, either because they commit crimes in more than one country or because they just think they are that good at not getting caught, you may wish to know what punishments identity thieves can face if they are prosecuted in the United States. [...]

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Identity Theft on the Web

July 19, 2011

While identity theft has been a problem for Americans for literally decades, it’s only in the last two that this crime really took off as far as it occurring over the Web. Thanks to the information superhighway, thieves can steal information from virtually anyone in the world, anywhere, at any time. Since most Americans, over [...]

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Electronic Medical Records Need to be Protected

July 12, 2011

Electronic medical records, also known as EMRs, are helpful in a lot of ways. They help doctors diagnose patients who have been to several specialists, they help prevent drug interactions, and they make it so people don’t have to cart around stacks of paper files. One way in which they are not helpful though is [...]

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Justice Department Report on Identity Theft

June 28, 2011

A report by Javelin Research reveals that identity theft incidences are on the rise, even in recent months. Its latest data, released in February, stated that over 11.1 American adults were victimized in 2010 which is an increase of 12% from the total in 2009. This is not the first time victims have increased, but [...]

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How Identity Theft Happens

June 7, 2011

If you’re new to this site and relatively new to learning about identity theft, it may help you to understand exactly what this crime is and how it happens. To paint identity theft with a broad brush, you can simply say that it is the act of stealing personal information from someone with the goal [...]

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Identity Theft and the Law

May 31, 2011

When you hear that about 10 million Americans are victimized by identity theft each year, according to the Federal Trade Commission, you may wonder why the government isn’t doing anything to try and stop these crimes. However, the fact is that the government is trying. In fact, in the past few years, several bills have [...]

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Identity Thief Allegedly Steals Identity of 102 Year Old Woman

May 17, 2011

Ok, we usually don’t write blog posts on identity theft crimes as we like to hold ourselves to a higher standard and provide great content and quite frankly that would have us posting multiple times every day and would just make the important content hard to find. This one, however, caught our eye and just [...]

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Emotional Impact of Identity Theft on Children

April 19, 2011

Most likely, if a child under 18 becomes a victim of identity theft, it’s because a parent or relative stole the child’s personal information and used it for identification or to obtain credit. When the child finds out what has happened, it can take quite an emotional toll on the family. First of all, the [...]

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Synthetic Identity Theft Harder to Detect

March 29, 2011

While all types of identity theft, of course, involve deception, one of the most sinister is synthetic identity theft because it can be one of the trickiest to detect. What this type of identity theft entails is the thief not using all of your personal information directly, but instead using just some of it and [...]

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