Protecting Yourself From Identity Theft The Ultimate Prevention

•Identity Theft Crimes It s In The Mail
Recently law enforcement officials in the United States and Egypt cracked a sophisticated identity theft ring that used phishing to steal close to two million dollars from Wells Fargo and Bank of America Customers. This comes on the heels of another international ring that reported stole forty million credit and debit cards from numerous high profile companies. This type of news would easily give you the impression that the internet is the playground for identity thieves. While you...

•Identity Theft and Fraud Catching Them is Usually Not This Easy
Out of how many customer-service desks, out of how many registers she could have gone to, and she had to come to me? It almost sounds like a take off of the Humphrey Bogart line from the movie Casablanca. It isn't. For Michelle McCambridge, the situation was all too real. The Federal Trade Commission estimates that last year 8.4 million people were the victims of identity theft. The good news is that is a decline from previous years where the numbers hovered close to the 10 million mark....

•Victims of Identity Theft Shaken To The Core
For people who have never been victims of identity theft and fraud it may seem like a small inconvenience. Someone uses your personal information to open up a new account. However the people in charge realize a mistake has been made and eventually everything is corrected. Victims of identity theft know different. When the call comes in from some collection agency demanding payment for a product that you have never even heard of let alone bought you realize almost instantaneously that this...

•Identity Theft Over The Internet Phish Fry
When you hear about some fairly new identity theft scam like the pay at the pump con or the parking violation scam that was unveiled in Iowa not too long ago, other forms of theft like phishing seem almost ancient in comparison. But it still works. How effectively? In the two years this specific international scam was unveiled identity thieves have stolen close to two million dollars from Wells Fargo and Bank Of America customers. That came to an end recently when a joint sting...

•Identity Theft And Fraud Is It Worse Online
While computers and the internet have come to be an accepted part of our daily lives there are still many people who want no parts of them. There are several complaints to go along with this. The perceived lack of privacy in the form of having to provide personal information and then believing rightly or not that their information is now ready to broadcast across the world wide web. Or just that Big Brother is watching you from the other side of your monitor has many people saying thanks...

•Identity Theft in the News Heard it on the Radio
According to statistics compiled by law enforcement agencies, Texas along with California, Nevada, New York, Washington and Arizona are states with the highest incidents of identity theft. There are types of identity theft that determine the ranking for each state including employment related fraud, credit card, bank, phone and utilities and several others. But undoubtedly the last type of fraud that Texans expected to find themselves dealing with is the one off the radio. Yet that is...

•Protecting Yourself From Identity Theft Someone Call a Cab
We've seen it on a daily basis. Someone that is overloaded with luggage or has one shopping bag to many tries to hail a cab. Then you watch them get inside which may be a production unto itself. After arriving at their destination exiting the cab can also be a study in comedy. But at least they get where they are going. However you do not need to be overloaded with baggage to realize that you left something inside the taxi. It can be anything from keys to wallets or cell phones....

•Identity Theft Over the Internet The Social Network Goldmines
While offline identity theft and fraud remains the most prominent (shoulder surfing, dumpster diving, home break-ins and countless others) it seem cyberspace is doing its best to close the gap. This does not mean the high profile data breaches we hear about in the news. Although they do their part to raise the anxiety of being online it is still the low level day to day identity thefts that cause the greatest concern. As of late social network has been feeling the strain. Places like...

•Identity Theft on the Internet Pharming On Your Land
By now you have probably received at least one of those urgent emails. The one telling you that your account is about to be shut down unless you immediately update your personal information by clicking the link contained in the email. They may even have heightened the urgency by telling you that if you do not take immediate action that you could be facing a lawsuit. For what exactly is not clear but it does the trick by raising your stress level and forcing you to take instant action....

•Cheating Spouse Signs Falling Out
The General Social Survey calculates that in any given year approximately 10 percent of spouses cheat on their significant other. That seems like a small number but considering it represents millions of people you get the idea. Keep in mind you also have to take into account that many people may be cheating but the last thing they are going to do is admit it to a total stranger who states they are doing a survey; regardless whether the person doing the surveying assures the interviewee that...