Archive for the ‘Identity Theft Risk’ Category
Wednesday, November 16th, 2011
If you are traveling out of the country during the holiday season this year, you will no doubt be concerned about the safety of your passport. If you obtained a passport, whether it's new or a replacement, since 2007, you are carrying an e-passport, which includes a radio frequency identification ...
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Monday, November 14th, 2011
According to the Federal Trade Commission, it takes a victim of identity theft an average of $500 and 30 hours to resolve an incidence of identity theft. No one wants to lose that kind of money during the holidays, and no one has that kind of time.
The holidays present a ...
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Friday, November 11th, 2011
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Monday, November 7th, 2011
We've all done it – we go to restaurants all the time. We hand over our debit or credit card to a server, and they go off with our cards. We assume they are simply going to swipe our cards to pay for the meal.
But what if that's not the ...
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Wednesday, October 26th, 2011
Identity theft is becoming a greater threat to small businesses, according to a recent survey by Javelin Strategy & Research. The study found that fad suffered by small business owners totaled $8 billion in the past year. Banks, merchants and other providers absorbed at least $5.43 billion of that loss, ...
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Monday, October 24th, 2011
A phone scam is currently making the rounds all over the country. This "robo" calling scam attempts to lure consumers into revealing their bank account and Social Security numbers over the phone via text message.
The scam works like this: You receive a call that says something like, "This is ...
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Monday, October 17th, 2011
Due to the economy, identity theft scams are on the rise. Chief among the scams being perpetrated are job seeker scams. Scammers create job seeking websites online that require the user to enter personal information that allows them to steal the victim's identity.
Scammers also post jobs for work at ...
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Wednesday, October 12th, 2011
It didn't take long for scammers to find a way to exploit the death of Apple cofounder Steve Jobs. The scam came in the form of a Facebook hoax.
A link made the rounds on the social networking site, but more than 15,000 people fell for it before it was discovered ...
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Monday, October 10th, 2011
After investigating for nearly two years, investigators in New York say they've shut down an identity theft ring that bought Apple electronics, luxury handbags, shoes and other products using stolen credit card information and then sold the goods overseas.
The identity theft ring involved about 111 people, all of which were ...
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Friday, October 7th, 2011
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Wednesday, October 5th, 2011
There's a new scam making the rounds. And this one's pushy.
Hundreds of people have reported getting an e-mail alert supposedly from Wells Fargo. The e-mail contains a partially listed credit card number, and a request to download information, along with a threat that the recipient's card will be blocked if ...
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Wednesday, September 28th, 2011
No one likes to get caught by a traffic light camera. It's annoying, at best.
But now scammers have taken the annoyance factor to a whole new level – tricky scammers are taking advantage of the use of these traffic controllers.
The scam is fairly simple. A scammer posing as a police ...
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Thursday, September 22nd, 2011
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Monday, September 19th, 2011
There's a bill making its way through the House of Representatives that could end the online privacy of Americans.
The Protecting Children from internet Pornographers Act of 2011 (HR 1981) would force Internet service providers to maintain a national database of user names, addresses, phone numbers, credit card information, bank ...
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Friday, September 9th, 2011
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