Archive for the ‘Life Lock’ Category
Wednesday, June 30th, 2010
Megan recently received a bill for a credit card that she didn’t apply for, but it bore her name and address information. It also bore a tab of more than $4,000. Megan had been very careful to protect her personal information, shredding all documents before throwing them out, and making ...
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Friday, June 25th, 2010
When deciding the best way to protect your identity from theft, it really comes down to this: do you want to monitor it or do you want to lock it down?
With LifeLock, you can be sure it’s locked down tight. LifeLock Identity Alert™ System monitors credit and service accounts ...
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Wednesday, December 3rd, 2008
You may be asking yourself how does LifeLock work to protect me from identity theft. LifeLock doesn’t just monitor your credit for you it does so much more than that. LifeLock takes a proactive approach to protecting your identity. So what does LifeLock do that protects your identity well lets ...
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Friday, November 7th, 2008
How often do you send personal information over a text message? Some companies have begun to send out informative text messages to their customers through a messaging system. How does the customer know that the information in the text message is actually coming from the company and not from ...
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Thursday, November 6th, 2008
Most people don’t consider their birth dates to be very sensitive information. They think of it as a time of celebration and a time to party. Unfortunately our birth dates are typically used by organizations to verify you are who you say you are. Sometimes the birth date is ...
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Tuesday, November 4th, 2008
In this digital age we have more and more problems to worry about. As the Internet gets faster and more advanced to becomes easier for thieves to steal information from unsuspecting people. As networks get bigger and computers become common place it becomes a bigger playground for malware and viruses ...
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Monday, November 3rd, 2008
The New Red flag laws were set forth last November as part of the Fair and Accurate Credit Transaction Act of 2003. The new laws were designed to make entities that extend credit to consumers in exchange for goods and or services, make a plan to detect identity theft ...
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Thursday, October 30th, 2008
Stephanie Pettit, a woman who teaches people about identity theft and how to avoid, it has been a victim of identity theft herself. When she found out that someone had withdrawn over a $1,000 from her checking account she could believe it.
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Tuesday, October 28th, 2008
In a new Case study about children and identity theft found that 5% of children have a credit report when they shouldn't. Over half of those 5% have been a victim of identity theft. Those same 5% had on average 12,779 in credit that was either wrongly assigned to ...
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Monday, October 27th, 2008
Soldiers may be at a higher risk of identity theft then expected. In more recent years identity thieves have been targeting soldiers who are over seas. You might think that this makes an identity theft harder but in fact to does not. Soldiers that are over seas will not have ...
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Saturday, October 25th, 2008
The nightmare doesn't stop there. Byrd was then fired from his Part-time job for failing to disclose his criminal recored which he didn't really have. A couple months later he was fired from him full-time job. When he tried to get his unemployment benefits they were denied because of ...
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Friday, October 24th, 2008
Malcolm Byrd has been arrested several times because some stole his identity and is committing crimes in Byrd's name. Byrd has been arrested not once, not twice, but three times because of the crimes of the identity theft.
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Thursday, October 23rd, 2008
The Fresno police department are looking for the people who broken into the KRM building and stole some computers. One of the computers,a laptop, had very sensitive information on it. The laptop had personal information on almost 5,700 city employees. The information on the computer dates back to 1973.
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Wednesday, October 22nd, 2008
A inmate in the Multnomah County jail was running a Identity theft ring from inside jail. The inmate was using the phone systems to call his associates who would then make a three way conference call to someone else. Shawn McGinnis, the inmate, would then act as a kind of ...
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Tuesday, October 21st, 2008
Hospital patients of Mary Washington Hospital in Fredericksburg, VA have been exposed to Identity theft. A man was using the hospital's online registration system when he accidentally found the files of 803 patients. The hospital is claiming that the data breach is an anomaly and that the man was the ...
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