Nothing is Free When It Comes to Protecting Your Identity
by Jed Jenson According to the FTC, an estimated 9 million Americans are affected each year by identity theft ... in Fraud Alerts on your credit report. 2. Do Not Call or Mail Lists - Another way to protect your identity ... lists, and accessing free credit reports, many individuals do not realize that they must [more...]
Date: 2008-06-19 18:15:14
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Phishing - What It Is and How to Avoid Identity Theft
Phishing is a term used to describe a type of spam that aims to steal your identity ... and place an initial fraud alert on your credit reports. Subscribe to the free Ask Angela ... their potential victims to provide personal data such as credit card numbers, passwords or account [more...]
Date: 2008-10-18 07:10:08
10 Ways To Protect Your Financial Identity Being Used For Someone Else’s Shopping Spree
Someone impersonating you could be spending your hard-earned money. Impossible! Not really, check, loan, and identity fraud are a real problem ... card accounts, and make sure to keep a copy of your credit cards and the toll free contact numbers ... your credit report once a year from each of the three credit bureaus to make sure [more...]
Date: 2009-01-05 08:56:49
Avoiding ID Theft and Credit Fraud
Avoiding ID Theft and Credit Fraud Article excerpted from the new book, "How to Do Space Age Work with a Stone Age Brain" TM copyright 2004, ... these credit bureaus remove your name from their lists: TRW (800) 353-0809, Equifax (800) 219-1251 and TransUnion (800) 241-2858. Once a year carefully check out your free credit report from Experian [more...]
Date: 2008-12-01 09:00:08
How You Can Stop Identity Theft
The FTC recently released a list of top consumer fraud complaints received in 2007 and not surprisingly, identity theft topped the list for the eighth year in a row at 32% of the overall complaints. Consumers reported over $1.2 billion in losses last year, even though there are many ways to fight identity theft . While we can’t be expected to live an exceedingly paranoid existence, we can be smart by monitoring our free Experian credit report. [more...]
Date: 2009-06-18 19:02:05
Quicken Beam: Your finances made cute
Beam's SMS report can be useful to keep on top of your accounts and to spot fraud ... , which is unusual for an Intuit app; even Quicken Online (which competes with the free Mint), costs ... phone: Quicken Beam. You tell it about your financial accounts, like your bank and your credit card [more...]
Date: 2008-08-20 07:52:29
Free Isn’t “Free” When It Comes to Protecting Your Identity
by Jed Jenson According to the FTC, an estimated 9 million Americans are affected each year by identity theft ... Alerts for you every 90 days. A fraud alert is a “flag” placed on your credit report that notifies ... lists, and accessing free credit reports, many individuals do not realize that they must [more...]
Date: 2008-06-19 18:31:05
Why Protecting Your Identity is Not Necessarily Free
by Jed Jenson According to the FTC, an estimated 9 million Americans are affected each year by identity theft ... Alerts for you every 90 days. A fraud alert is a “flag” placed on your credit report that notifies ... lists, and accessing free credit reports, many individuals do not realize that they must [more...]
Date: 2008-06-19 18:55:50
Countrywide Sends Fraud Alert Letters: 'Your Info May Have Been Sold' [Countrywide]
A Countrywide customer emailed to tell us he received a unpleasant surprise in the mail today: ... on to say they will give you 2 years of Triple Advantage credit report monitoring for free ... understand why temporary free credit monitoring is always the go-to remedy every time a company [more...]
Date: 2008-09-09 22:57:49
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