News Dissector" Danny Schechter speaks to a C-NBC reporter outside the NACA protest at Bear Stearns, in a never-to-be-broadcast interview. Danny Schechter, is Director of In Debt We Trust a hard-hitting documentary that investigates why so many Americans - college...
March 2008 Archives
A new lawsuit filed against LifeLock accuses them of deception. One doesn't have to look too far to see deception alright-but who's really doing the deceiving? If you look at recent events, LifeLock doesn't appear to be the culprit. Rather...
Thieves steal and sell your house, leaving you stuck with the mortgage Source: ConsumerAffairs.Com A new type of crime is targeting homeowners. It's one that combines identity theft with mortgage fraud. When you mix those criminal activities together, you end...
HR Data Breaches Can Leave Holes in Corporate Pockets Source: Workforce.com Employee data breaches are becoming like leaky roofs for companies--frustrating but familiar. And as such, experts say, organizations are getting smarter about preventing the kind of personal information exposures...
Phishing scams often take the form of an e-mail that appears to come from a legitimate source. If a Phishing scam is successful, criminals can then easily empty your bank accounts, run up credit card charges and apply for loans...
Computer Technician Reveals Flaw In Security Many people feel secure in posting information and files on the popular Facebook web site, but as it was revealed early this week it might not be that secure. Byron Ng, a computer...
National Institutes of Healthh -March 24, 2008 Stolen Laptop contains names & medical information on 2500 Western Carolina University - March 23, 2008 SSN's Hacked Agilent Technologies - March 22, 2008 Stolen Laptop has names, SSN's and financial information of...
The company behind credit scoring, Fair Issac, recently announced changes in the way they'll be calculating our credit scores: ******************************************************************** For more info see prior blog: Will the new FICO 08 credit scoring model have an effect on you?...
Credit cards, drivers' licenses, corporate ids, university ids, speed passes and passports now contain RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) tags. Why should you care? Because criminals have discovered that electronic devices known as Radio Frequency Readers (or Remote Frequency Readers) readily...
Lasell College says hacker accessed personal data NEWTON, Mass. March 20, 2008-- Lasell College says a hacker accessed data containing personal information on about 20,000 current and former students, faculty, staff and alumni. The college told The Boston Globe on...
Sophistication of Viruses and Other Threats Poses Big Challenges for Companies, Consumers The sheer volume and complexity of computer viruses being released on the Internet today has the anti-virus industry on the defensive, experts say, underscoring the need for consumers...
TAMPA, Fla., March 18 /PRNewswire/ -- In response to Countrywide Home Loans refusal to fulfill promises made to Gulf Coast hurricane victims, the James Hoyer Law Firm announced today the filing of a new class action lawsuit against the mortgage...
East Coast supermarket chain hit by data breach; 4.2 million account numbers affected Hannaford Bros., a supermarket chain with stores primarily in the Northeast and Florida, said Monday that it was hit by a data breach that exposed 4.2 million...
Consumerist reports: Credit Card Victims Muzzled, Ordered To Release Financial Histories Before Sharing Their Experiences Four credit card victims were ordered to sign waivers allowing their creditors to release their private financial records to the public before they could testify...
"Debt Collector Frauds; Freddie Mac / Wells Fargo Real Estate Frauds; Court Collusion" By GUEST BLOGGER: Barbara Ann Jackson -Law & Grace, Inc. * * * * * * * * DEBT COLLECTION fraud is the prime method for accomplishing...
Leukemia Survivor Reaches Landmark Settlement With TransUnion in ID Theft Case Credit Reporting Company Agrees to Major Policy Changes in Handling Credit Fraud SAN FRANCISCO, March 14 /PRNewswire/ -- Leukemia survivor Eric Drew announced today that he has reached a...
TALLAHASSEE, FL - With Spring Break here and families planning for summer vacations, Attorney General Bill McCollum today issued a consumer advisory cautioning Florida residents and guests to be wary of the various scams and fraud which could be associated...
Harvard University is notifying thousands of graduate students and applicants that their personal information may have been exposed by a data breach. The Ivy League school says a computer hacker gained entry to its server last month. Harvard says about...
HealthNow data goes missing as laptop vanishes... members may be at risk HealthNow New York has alerted 40,000 members in Western and Northeastern New York that they may be at risk for identity theft, after a former employee's laptop computer...
Courtney Love: Smells like N.J. identity theft Con men reputedly bought a $3.2 million mansion in New Jersey last year using the social security number of the Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain, according to the late rocker's wife, Courtney Love. Love...
Consumers continue to be at "genuine" risk of fraud and identity theft when our personal identifying information is lost, stolen or pilfered from hacked databases on a daily basis. It's remarkable that Experian claims the law (they helped write) allows...
Consumers Union, publisher of Consumer Reports is an independent, testing and information non-profit organization that serves only consumers. They are a comprehensive source for unbiased advice about products and services, personal finance, health and nutrition, and other consumer concerns. HearUsNow.org...
Public Citizen Wins California Consumer Case on Appeal In a win for consumers, a federal appeals court ruled that a private California debt collector can be sued for its overly aggressive tactics, even though the company is working on the...
Since 2005, more than 230 million Americans have received notice that their personal information has gone missing. Recently, Congress has taken some steps to provide consumers with basic safeguards to protect personal information and prevent identity theft; however, much...
FICO 08 - The Exciting New Credit Scoring Flub-up By Guest Blogger: Jim Malmberg, Executive Director of ACCESS (American Consumer Credit Education Support Services), a non-profit organization dedicated to educating the public on matters relating to credit and privacy issues....
Criminals are always at least two steps ahead of us when it comes to initiating new scams and it seems it didn't take long for them to come up with a new scam that coincides with the governments' multi-billion dollar...
10th ANNUAL NATIONAL CONSUMER PROTECTION WEEK PROMOTES FINANCIAL LITERACY AS A SOUND INVESTMENT Give Me Back My Credit and ACCESS (American Consumer Credit Education Support Services) a non-profit organization dedicated to educating the public on financial matters and privacy rights...
A memoir exposing the steep price consumers pay when facing mortgage servicing errors, inaccurate credit reporting, illegal debt collection practices, identity theft and weak consumer protection laws. THE BOOK » DENISE'S STORY »
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