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How to Protect Your Child’s Credit History

A great article about protecting your child's credit history. Even children are having their identities stolen.You have to be careful about avoiding[...] read more »
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Top 16 Pieces of Your Information Identity Thieves Crave

A countdown of the top 16 pieces of YOUR personal information identity thieves would just love to get their grubby little hands on!
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Know the Top 5 risks of using your debit card before it costs you

There's a lot of good about using debit cards -- you don't have to carry cash, you're spending money you already have instead of borrowing and it [...] read more »
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How to Opt Out of Prescreened Credit Card Offers

How to quit getting those annoying credit card offers in your mailbox. read more »
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My Identity may have Been Compromised

A look at the typical credit monitoring offered when your identity may have been compromised. read more »
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Identity Theft Protection – Or Not

What are you really paying for when you sign up for Identity Theft "Protection" read more »
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Protect Your Identity – It Starts at Home

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Stop Mail Theft Once and For All

Techniques to protect your inbound and outbound mail as well as what to do if your mail is stolen. read more »
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Gone Phishing: How To Avoid Being Caught By Scammers * Get Rich Slowly

A basic overview of phishing scams, what they are, what they have in common, and a couple tips on preventing them. read more »
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Identity Theft: Protect Yourself From Being the Next Victim

8 Ways Identity Thieves Get Your Information, what they use it for, indicators of identity theft, and ways to clean up the mess! read more »
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Synthetic Identity Theft

Synthetic identity theft is a special type of identity theft. There are two versions of synthetic identity theft. The first is where the thief rebuil[...] read more »
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Protect your Identity Online: Facebook a Social Hackers Dream

What information have you given all of your Facebook friends? How about their friends? Some simple tips to be sure you're not giving away too much[...] read more »
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Identity Theft: Fatal Attraction with a Financial Twist?

As it turns out, identity thieves also have a potential victim “type” that stands out as more eye-catching than others. The potential victim “type” [...] read more »
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Internet Thieves Run a $265 Million Industry

For the first time since they started keeping stats, Internet auction fraud wasn't the top item on the list. read more »
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Is Lifelock Worth the Cost?

A couple years ago I signed up for identity theft protection with Lifelock. It costs $9 a month. (The normal price is $10/month but I used a promo [...] read more »
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