August 2008

Last Four Digits of Your Social Security Number

A great identity theft prevention feature that many corporation started using is the utilization of the last four digits of your social security number. Your social security number often shows up on your credit reports, billing statements, credit and loan applications, and so on. Social Security Number Use in The Past In the past, companies [...]

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Credit Refusal and Identity Theft Prevention

Uh-huh, even the individual that is refused credit can prevent identity theft. The only catch is that there is a time limit. Perhaps you have applied for credit and you were denied. How would you like to know about something that very few people know about. It would be cool? Wouldn’t it? Here it is. [...]

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Speaking with Your Account’s Customer Service Representative

Identity theft is not immune to your busy lifestyle and neither are you immune to identity theft. However there are some things you can do to prevent identity theft at its tracks, especially when dealing with your account’s customer service representative. I have noticed that the ubiquitous cell phone is often a great tool for [...]

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Document Most Susceptible to Identity Theft and Fraud

I don’t fully know if you are aware that there is one single document that can make identity theft a very good possibility. Some of you already know what it is, but some are still clueless. It is not your utility bill or credit card and it isn’t your state id or driver’s license. Simply, [...]

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Cell Phones, Personal Information, and Your Identity

In today’s communication driven world cell phones are a near necessity and within this new need a new type of danger lurks. As you may know, cellular phones serve as great devices to call for some take out or text message to vote for your favorite American Idol. What’s more, the little electronic device is [...]

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Family Secure – Child Identity Theft

Experian came out with a great service called Family Secure. It is a child identity theft safeguard service that not only protects your child from identity theft but your complete family also. It is my belief that Family Secure web site presents great facts to boost your awareness about the personal identity theft protection program [...]

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Anti Virus Software Helps Prevent Identity Theft

My anti virus software discovered a trojan: Trojan-Spy.HTML.Fraud.gen. I found out that the trojan, often confused with the term virus, is associated with many email scams propagating on the Web. If you have received Internet phising e-mails you may have been hit with emails from posers of respected companies like Wells Fargo, PayPal, ACIPCO Credit [...]

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