Are You a Victim of Identity Theft?
Identity theft is a huge problem in the United States, and it is a crime that is growing rapidly each and every day. How can you tell if you are a victim of identity theft? What are the signs?
The best way to find out if you have been a victim of identity theft is to [...]
Fraud Alerts and ID Theft
One excellent way to prevent identity theft is through the use of fraud alerts. In this article, we will discuss what fraud alerts are and how they will help you prevent identity theft.
A fraud alert is something that is put on your credit report to indicate that you suspect that you might become a victim [...]
Ten Best Practices to Prevent ID Theft
With the rise of ID theft being a problem in our country, we thought we would talk about a few things that you could do to protect yourself from becoming ID theft’s next victim. Here is a list of best practices you should be following in order to prevent ID theft.
Do not carry your Social [...]
Identity Theft Statistics
We thought we would provide you with some rather eye-opening statistics. Further proof why you need to highly consider ID theft protection.
There were over 48 Million identity records lost or stolen last year. Some notable heists include:
40 million credit card numbers stolen from Cardsystems
3.9 million financial records lots by CitiFinancial
150,000 records of individuals sold to [...]
LifeLock Strikes Back to Defeat Identity Theft
LifeLock is the leading identity theft insurance company and is taking initiative to start a grassroots campaign to bring awareness to identity theft issues.
LifeLock’s “Strike Back – Defeat Identity Theft Now” campaign is bringing the issue of identity theft and identity theft prevention to the consumers of the United States. This is an effort [...]
Types of Identity Theft
There are four types of identity theft and are as follows:
Financial identity theft
Criminal identity theft
Identity cloning
Business/commercial identity theft
Financial identity theft is probably what you think of when you think of idenity theft and is the focus of this post. The classic example of this type of identity theft is when a criminal pretends to be [...]