1. Ignore Spam Email
Do not open an unsolicited email. Spammers are just playing a numbers game. They simply send out like a million emails and hope that at least a third of them stick.
Spammers try to gather as many email addresses as they can. They don’t even know if any of the addresses are active. […]
The warning signs can start innocently enough that you don’t even
recognize them as being warning signs of impending doom. Perhaps it’s
a letter from your credit card company about a credit application. It
might be a call from your bank inquiring about your application for a
line of credit. Do not be fooled into […]
I open up the ‘Feed Reader’ every day on my laptop and cruise the ‘news feeds’ I ’subscribe’ to. The amount of information is now overwhelming, I need to just ’subscribe’ to only the ‘feeds’ that are of immediate interest, else I would be reading ‘feeds’ twenty four hours every day.
When I click on a […]
Identity thieves take advantage of everyday opportunities to discover your personal information and use it to commit fraud or other crimes. The good news is a victim of identity theft has more options today than ever before. According to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), there are four important actions you can take to minimize […]
As anyone who has been paying attention lately no doubt knows, identity theft is on the rise, and more people than ever before are finding themselves at risk. With the recent disclosure of missing consumer data by a number of banks, credit card companies and other financial institutions, now is the perfect time to […]
Identity theft is a crime that directly affected over 9.9 million people last year. That’s right, the US Postal Service reports that identity theft cost victims over $5 billion just last year. We all hear about identity theft, but what is it really?
Simply put, identity theft is a crime that occurs when one person […]
News last week that Internet service provider Verizon settled its lawsuit against Detroit-based spam king Al Ralsky was of little comfort. Ralsky agreed to pay a fine and stop spamming Verizon customers, but he still has plenty of other targets. And there are still hundreds of other spammers who have never visited a courtroom and […]
Online identity theft is a serious crime that can clean out your life savings
and leave you with a damaged credit history that may take years to repair.
In the interim, obtaining loans, renting apartments, and even applying
for work can become increasingly difficult. Here is what you can do to
protect yourself:
Internet and computer […]
Don’t Let Your Valuable Private Information Become Public! Use a Paper Shredder
Paper and information go hand in hand. Unfortunately, paper with information…private information…can go from your hand to someone else’s all too easily. It might surprise you to know that going through the trash, either your company’s or your personal home trash, is not illegal. […]
Identity Theft is when someone uses another person’s social security number, driver license, name, address, telephone number and any other information about that particular person as their own. The unauthorized person that obtains this information without the other person’s knowledge uses this information to commit theft and fraud.
How does a person committing ID theft get […]