Thursday, July 15th, 2010
Susan received some unwelcome mail the other day from an agency from which no one likes to get mail – the IRS.
When she opened and read the letter, Susan discovered the IRS was demanding $5,300 in back taxes for jobs she'd never held in several states.
When Susan contested the IRS' ...
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Wednesday, July 14th, 2010
There are now more than 50 million Americans using identity theft protection services, meaning more people are thinking proactively when it comes to protecting their most sensitive information.
There are many identity theft protection and credit monitoring services out there, and some tout free credit reports while looking for a ...
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Monday, December 14th, 2009
Like it or not your identity is out there. Every time you apply for a credit card, mortgage, loan, buy something online or even go to the doctor's office you're releasing parts of your identity into the ether. And that identity can been scooped up, mishandled or sold to ...
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Friday, November 6th, 2009
LifeLock is the industry leader in proactive identity theft protection for a reason. They don't simply monitor your credit or place fraud alerts on your behalf like some services. LifeLock takes charge with a variety of proactive measures and added benefits.
When you become a member of LifeLock for only ...
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Tuesday, April 14th, 2009
In late November I wrote a story about immigration identity theft and the effect it’s having. I mentioned one case out of Colorado that involved the tax preparer, Amalia Cerrillo, the owner of Amalia’s Translation and Tax Services. Well it seems that a judge has ordered a halt to the ...
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Wednesday, April 8th, 2009
With all the hype going around about the Conficker computer worm I thought it might be interesting to talk about technologies and people that can brake into systems and steal. For those who don’t know what Conflicker is here is a short description from wikipedia.
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Monday, April 6th, 2009
LifeLock is having another sweepstakes where one lucky winner and a guest will get a trip to New York City for four days and three nights. Along with $1,000 cash prize the lucky prizewinner will also get to experience the season finale of “The Celebrity Apprentice” that’s being filmed on ...
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Monday, March 30th, 2009
I’m sure that people are tired of hearing about identity theft. Identity theft horror stories are everywhere and are hard to ignore. This story isn’t necessarily a horror story, but it’s a good example of a business that you should be able to trust with your information but probably shouldn’t.
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Friday, March 27th, 2009
What can make identity theft worse than just loosing some money and gaining some bad credit? When the identity thieves make you the criminal instead of them. I have read a couple identity theft stories, similar to the one, and in my opinion they are the worst kinds of identity ...
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Friday, March 13th, 2009
Most data breach stories are rather boring and includes talk about how companies fail to protect their data. Most companies and organizations have a least one data breach at one time or another. Binghamton University has had many and can’t seem to get their act together. One would assume they ...
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Thursday, March 12th, 2009
1% of all PCs are Infected my ID Theft malware
According to Panda Security, an online virus and malware scanner service, one out of every 100 computers are infected with malware designed to steal your personal information. These malware programs steal information like your bank account login and investment information and ...
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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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Friday, October 31st, 2008
3,300 people who had been charged with minor drug and alcohol offences are left open to identity theft when their personal information was left unsecured on a website for 11 days. The information was available from late September to early October according to officials.
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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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