Unemployment and Identity Theft

April 29, 2009 – 4:13 pm

unemployment_office The U.S. is going through a tough time right now. Unemployment is on the rise and the economy is failing. Fortunately there is one industry that thrives during economic hardships, too bad that industry is identity theft.

It seems that identity thieves are the only ones not struggling in this economy. When the economy is down it opens new doors and opportunities for thieves to steal personal information.

Scammers have begun running fake help-wanted ads through job-search services in hopes people will submit personal information to them through the supposed hiring process. These scams and ones like them are targeting the growing number of unemployed workers in the U.S.
Scammers have also been targeting the job-search sites themselves in hopes of hacking the their system and getting access to all that private information stored on the websites servers. Monster.com as acknowledged at least one incident where hackers had compromised their database. Pretty scary thought when you think about all the people in those databases.

Many times when posting a job or a resume the user will be bombarded with spam messages asking the user to click here and go here to enter their information as it pertains to a job. These e-mails are of course are scams but some people will still be taken advantage of and may loose their identity because of it.

LifeLock is the leader in identity theft protection. If you and your loved ones would like to know that their identity is safe then LifeLock is the way to go. They will help protect your identity and back it with their $1 Million guarantee*. You can get a discount on your LifeLock membership by using the LifeLock promotion code “Defense”.

*Guarantee applies only if you become an id theft victim because of a failure in our service. Other restrictions apply. See LifeLock.com for details.

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