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Request a Credit Report From All Three Credit Report Companies

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If you have a credit card, own a home, or even just opened a checking account, you’ve probably heard of the three credit report companies: Experian, Equifax, and TransUnion. These are the three major credit bureaus which compile all your credit information so that lenders, financial institutions, landlords, utility companies, and insurance firms can make [...]

How To Avoid Credit Card Identity Theft

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Credit card identity theft is perhaps one of the most common forms of identity theft. Unfortunately, many individuals fall victim to it year after year. The Federal Trade Commission has revealed that millions of dollars are lost collectively by consumers and credit card issuers from unauthorized use of stolen credit cards and credit card information. [...]

How to Report Identity Theft: 3 Easy Steps

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With the number of identity theft cases increasing worldwide, it can sometimes seem that everyone is at risk. And in a way, everyone is. Pretty much anyone can be targeted, and that’s why it’s important for you to know how to report identity theft in case it happens to you. So just how does one [...]

The Importance of Credit Report Monitoring

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Credit report monitoring is one of the essentials to protecting yourself from identity theft. However, not everyone has the know-how, or even the time, to properly monitor their credit reports and protect their personal information. This is where credit monitoring services come in: for a fee, these services will do all the hands-on work for [...]

Six Common Identity Theft Scams

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One of the reasons that makes identity theft so widespread is the numerous identity theft scams that criminals commit. Identity thieves keep coming up with new and more varied ways of gaining the information they need to carry out their crimes, and a thief’s methods are limited only by his or her imagination. This may [...]

What Is Identity Theft?

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Identity theft is one of the most prevalent consumer crimes in the U.S. Approximately nine million Americans are victimized by this type of crime every year, according to the Federal Trade Commission. Yet not everyone is aware of this, and many people still find themselves asking “what is identity theft?” Identity theft involves the use [...]

Don’t Fall Victim to Computer Identity Theft!

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Computers have become an essential part of our everyday lives and because of this, we have also become susceptible to computer identity theft. And don’t think that this type of identity theft can only exist if you are online. For as long as own a computer, you could fall victim to identity theft, with or [...]

More Computerized Medical Records Means More Medical Identity Theft

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Believe it or not, the combination of computerized medical records and medical identity theft can be a potentially dangerous recipe for fleecing thousand of consumers of their health insurance benefits. So while hospitals clamor for a more technologically advanced system of keeping track of patients’ records, they could unknowingly be setting the stage up for [...]

Child Identity Theft: A Parent’s Nightmare on the Rise

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Now that young children and even infants are assigned their own Social Security Numbers, child identity theft has become more prevalent. The sad thing is that, many of these types of crimes remain undetected for a long time, in some cases, not until the child comes of legal age and attempts to establish his own [...]