Archive for the ‘Child Identity Theft’ Category
Thursday, May 13th, 2010
Teachers are supposed to be in a position of trust. As parents, we entrust our children's safety, education and -- to a certain degree -- morals to an educator's care. That must be why teachers are held to a higher degree and, when found wanting, have that much further to ...
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Friday, July 17th, 2009
"Ghosting" is when someone steals the identity of a deceased person and it's on the rise. While the U.S. doesn't track statistics on "ghosting," in the United Kingdom the crime is so prolific that a person has a 16% chance of having their identity used illegally after their death.
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Thursday, September 11th, 2008
Many adults are now guarding themselves with identity theft protection programs like LifeLock. Some identity thieves are turning to easier targets: their children. Children are becoming preferred victims because it is easier to expose their identities and harder to discover the theft. Students are especially easy targets because schools often ...
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