October 20, 2008 – 8:44 am
Antonio Speed’s former boss in Buffalo, NY calls him a “rogue bill collector,” but after he stole her identity and ran up run up $1,900 in charges, I’ll bet Mary Reynolds’s family in Pittsburgh, PA has a few other choice names for him.
Speed began his attack by posing as a police investigator when he called [...]
October 18, 2008 – 7:00 am
Mailbox security practices won’t protect you from Internet hackers or data breaches of planetary magnitude, but it’s a good place to start.
Along with lost and stolen wallets, home mailboxes provide a huge cache of information for identity thieves. There are, however, a number of simple measures you can employ to protect your identity and credit [...]
October 17, 2008 – 8:00 am
There are very few concrete facts available on medical identity theft, but is known is frightening, frustrating, life threatening and an enormous drain on the nation’s health care system.
The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Care Information Technology sponsored the first ever Medical Identity Theft Town Hall this week in Washington, DC. Because there [...]
October 16, 2008 – 8:13 am
Raising kids is hard. You do all you can to protect them and ensure their futures are bright: vaccinations, the best schools you can afford, sacrificing sleep to monitor their temperatures when they’re sick. And new threats and worries emerge as they grow and the world changes.
One of those new threats is child identity theft, [...]
October 15, 2008 – 9:45 am
If you’re one of those over-achieving, super-organized Christmas shoppers, you’re probably almost done, and just looking for a couple more store sales to finish up.
If, on the other hand, you’re one of those last minute people who don’t even start shopping until the last-minute sales during Christmas week, you have about two months to go.
Either [...]
October 14, 2008 – 11:34 am
When will they learn? Another government official is responsible for another data breach involving the theft of yet another laptop loaded with other people’s personal and financial information.
This time the loss can be blamed on a West Virginia state auditor who left the laptop in his car, and of course it was stolen. On the [...]
October 13, 2008 – 7:20 am
If you pay for oil changes, lawn service, manicures and pedicures or housekeeping, identity theft protection service is probably right for you.
There are some services included in almost every ID protection service that you could do yourself IF you have the time, discipline and organization to do it. Fraud alerts, mail list removal and ordering [...]
October 10, 2008 – 12:59 pm
When you hear about a company that grows from a single customer to almost 1.5 million customer in just over three years, you know they’re doing something right.
LifeLock was founded in June 2005. They started out with a plan to be “disruptive;” to do things differently, to shake things up by thinking outside the box. [...]
October 9, 2008 – 12:47 pm
The following actually happened September 16, 2008. And, because other knuckle-headed screw-ups just like this one happen every day.
First, imagine you’re among the millions of unemployed Americans, and among the 5.8% of New York residents who are unemployed.
Now, picture yourself scanning the first of the two-page unemployment insurance benefits application from Albany. There it is, [...]
October 8, 2008 – 12:28 pm
How widespread is identity theft? It’s so bad that even the deceased aren’t safe. It’s called “ghosting,” and it may be the most heinous and macabre of all forms of identity theft.
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