With 2011 winding down, many people are looking back and reflecting on the year that was. Everywhere you look it seems like there's another "Top 10" list and someone is recapping all of the wonderful and terrible things that happened...
December 2011 Archives
As technology continues to be more and more sophisticated, we need to be more and more careful and alert to the latest types of hi-tech scams and techniques used by today's tech savvy criminals. As a number of banks and...
This time of year, a lot of people are traveling to visit friends and family over the holidays and to ring in the New Year. Unfortunately, many of these travelers don't realize how much their risk of identity theft increases...
Facebook security and privacy issues have been the focus of a number of my blog posts, since it doesn't take much for an identity thief to gather a wealth of information from an unguarded Facebook account. Even those who have...
Try as we might there's no denying that Christmas is right around the corner. Unfortunately, that means that the identity thieves who hope to cash in on all of the holiday spending that goes on this time of year are...
I've talked before about the horrible act of stealing the identity of children. Identity thieves and sometimes even parents steal a child's unused Social Security number because it provides them with a clean credit report; the number can be used...
Meet Vontara Colbert-Redmond a Detroit woman whose troubles started in 2007 when her purse was stolen and her bank account was wiped out -- three times. But that would turn out to be just the beginning of what would become...
The thought of having your identity stolen and used by someone else is unnerving. Some of us have lived through it, and most of us have read about others that it's happened to and how they struggle for months to...
There's so much emphasis on cyber-crime and online scams these days that it can be easy to forget that scams and con-artists have been around long before the Internet. Criminals use the phone to commit many different types of fraud,...
Whether you dine out at the best restaurants or you prefer casual fast-food places, your identity and credit card data might be at risk thanks to an unrelenting wave of crime that seems to be taking over like a fast-moving...
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