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Funnywoman Melissa McCarthy, hilarious Jason Bateman, and a movie focused on raising awareness of identity theft? Bring on the popcorn!
The Identity Thief comedy, which premieres February 8, will hopefully raise awareness in a comical way. Click below to check out the trailer and prepare to laugh! Read More
With all due respect to insurance company Travelers, its latest study on identity theft isn’t entirely accurate.
The results — based on what the company calls a “comprehensive study of 2011 Travelers claim data” — shows that even in the digital era, burglary, stolen wallets, and pilfered identifications account for 73% of all cases.
Is most identity fraud really happening the “old-fashioned way” or not? Read more to separate fact from fiction.
Kudos to Time magazine for explaining how to correct the multiple layers and headaches involved with identity theft fraud. Read More
An identity-theft scheme in New York began to unravel when victims complained of poor credit scores and trouble receiving tax refunds because they had apparently already been filed.
The two suspects were indicted for allegedly using identities stolen via Craigslist ads to file false tax returns and take out loans. Read More
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European banking protection firm Affinion International conducted a survey of online bank customers and found a whopping 85% of respondents are worried about online fraud.
Not only that, but 42% of bank customers polled said they have been fraud victims! Read More
An 18-year-old Ohio resident called to order cable for her new apartment and was told she owed more than $1,000 in unpaid cable bills.
Turns out, her name and Social Security number were used to open the account — in 2005, when she was 11 years old. Read More
In our latest “Ask the Expert” series, CEO Kent Lawson discusses the idea behind anonymizing your data. This is in light of last week’s article detailing the privacy implications of Visa and MasterCard’s new campaign to sell consumer information they collect to online advertisers. While it theoretically makes it impossible to match any record with the person whose action it records, the anonymization process is an illusion. Why? Anonymization doesn’t work unless you remove so much information that the data becomes almost useless. Click the headline above to read some examples of this, and also to learn how to better protect your privacy. Read More
As you probably know, all the basic information about you (age, gender, location, income) have become commodities on the web – readily available to any company that wants to choose which ads to display to you – or anyone else who is just curious. But the quantity and level of detail which the credit card companies have about us represents a radically deeper threat to our privacy. This Halloween, I suggest you dress up your kids as Visa and MasterCard, then explain to your neighbors about the tricks that the credit card companies are planning. What are the tricks? Click the headline above to read more. Read More
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The Securities and Exchange Commission has warned its employees to monitor their credit reports for signs of fraud after a contractor shared their brokerage accounts, according to this HuffPost Tech article. The SEC will offer employees a free year of credit monitoring, though they’ve also been warned to place a fraud alert on their credit files as a precaution. Read More
As part of Cyber Security Awareness Month, Experian’s ProtectMyID highlights four critical steps that consumers can take to secure their financial information. Check out all the tips (including why it’s critical to bolster your passwords!) in this Nasdaq article. Read More
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