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Online Fraud Prevention Through Identity Theft Assistance

Victims of identity theft will face plenty of dire consequences, which occurred as a result of a perpetrator’s action. Identity theft can occur to anyone who doesn’t have a proper protection plan. Though there are plenty of ways to prevent identity theft, getting help from an identity theft assistance center is always the best idea. Through this way, we can be rest assured that our personal details are monitored by someone.

Perpetrators use plenty of advanced techniques to get our personal information. Sometimes it is quite hard to prevent it despite various prevention tactics. One way or the other, perpetrators try to steal our personal information with the help of modern technology. There are some people who blindly believe that they will never become a victim of identity theft. These people may become easy targets for perpetrators.

The consequences faced by the victims may vary depending upon the magnitude of crime committed. Identity theft assistance can prevent all these consequences. The theft assistance centers can provide us with the required information if we have any suspicion regarding identity crime. They offer plenty of professional help in addition to providing information.

Personal preventive measures taken by an individual requires plenty of time and money. A small mistake can cause various hassles in their peaceful life. Worst of all, they might face problems like negative credit score and lawsuits. This can be easily averted through a little help from an identity theft assistance center. These centers will provide enough support to help you overcome critical situations. Moreover, we can have a peaceful mind without having anything to worry about online perpetrators.

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Telephone Service Fraud and Telephone Scams

admin — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 17:00:53 +0000

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Identity thieves aren’t only after just your cold hard cash, they’ll scam you in whatever way possible and take you for everything they can.

Just as important as safeguarding your ATM or credit cards, remember that your calling card can also be worth a fortune in services.

Think of the enormous long distance charges that could accumulate over a month’s time and how shocking that bill will be when you finally receive it!

With access to a little bit of your personal information, identity thieves can even establish new cellular telephone service in your name.

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Telephone Scams

How many times every week do you receive phone calls from a charity of some sort, asking you for your financial support?

Or perhaps the call is from a marketing firm requesting your assistance in completing a survey. Now this is not to say that everyone calling you claiming to be with a charitable organization or marketing firm is really a scam artist looking to rip you off, but certainly the possibility exists.

Any caller asking you for personal information such as credit cards or Social Security Numbers should raise a red flag for you.

And, any charity truly requiring your financial help will be more than happy to send you a package of information that will provide you with many options of how you can make your donation. It is not necessary for you to give out credit card information at that time.

Additionally, any marketing firm conducting a survey does not actually require your SSN unless of course their goal is to rip you off!

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Check Fraud

admin — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 16:49:31 +0000

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Identity thieves will stop at nothing to take control of your available cash and credit, even if it means setting up a little counterfeit scam from the comforts of their own home by recreating checks in your name on their own computer.

Alternately, those industrious types who have been fortunate enough to get their hands on a check that has already been fully written out and signed, may use cleaning solvent to remove the name of whom the check was originally made payable to and will put their own name in it’s place.

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Other thieves who already have access to certain personal information may choose to open up a checking account in your name, using it to write bad checks and accumulating a load of debt that will appear on your credit report.

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Identity Theft Protection: Understanding Phishing Scheme

admin — Sat, 26 Jun 2010 13:55:14 +0000

Identity Theft Protection: Understanding Phishing Scheme

Identity theft protection definitely is something that you must be mindful of in this day and age. Identity theft continues to be one of the most common and most serious of crimes that are being committed the world over today.

In order to develop a comprehensive and meaningful identity theft protection plan or program, you do need to understand the different methods that identity thieves employ to perfect their crimes. Through this article you are provided information about phishing and identity theft.

Like many people you may be involved in using the Internet and World Wide Web a great deal. You may even shop and transact other types of business online in this day and age. Therefore, you need to make sure that you employ appropriate identity theft protection tactics while online, including tactics that protect you against phishing schemes.

The reality is that when it comes to identity theft protection and phishing, education is the most important element of guarding against phishing. Through this article, you are provided the tools you will need to protect yourself against phishing.

A common phishing schemes involves your receipt of an email containing an advertisement for a well known retailer. The email advertisement contains a link to the site. If you click on the link you will be transported to a site that may very well look precisely like the merchant being advertised. You will have no reason not to believe that you are not at the site operator by the well known retailer. However, you will not be at the site. You will be at a fake venue established for the sole purpose of snatching your personal and financial information.

You definitely need to be on guard against this type of scam as part of your identity theft protection efforts. There are other variations on the theme – including an email allegedly from your bank or some other financial institution – asking you to update your account information. In fact, this is also a scam. If you click through using the link you will not be taken to the bank’s website but to a sham venue. At this venue, an identity theft will snatch any information you might enter.

In the end, you should never provide any personal or financial inf
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ormation through a link in an email. This needs to be a general rule when it comes to identity theft protection practices. You should go directly to the reputable site itself by typing in the URL in a new window.

By: Bernard Pragides

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Author and internet entrepreneur Bernard Pragides offers expert advice and tips regarding identity theft. Learn more about identity theft and fraud by visiting his identity theft blog at www.LifeLockBlog.com.

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Shoulder Surfing & ATM Skimming

admin — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 16:07:00 +0000

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How many times per day or week do you use your ATM card to pay for purchases or use a banking machine to deposit or withdraw funds? Thieves have become very skilled and discreet about watching people key in PIN numbers and even from a distance can determine your personal ID number. You may be thinking right now that a thief really can’t do any damage with your PIN if they don’t have your actual card so what’s the big deal? Well then, you obviously aren’t familiar with “skimming” so please, read on…

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ATM Skimming

ATM skimming is a very real and very present threat in the world of identity theft scams. Thieves can create very inexpensive, home-made skimming devices that attach to the ATM card reader, thus allowing them to collect hundreds or thousands of card numbers in a very short period of time. There are two different types of devices that are commonly used: one that interferes with the customer’s ability to actually use the ATM machine successfully, and one that doesn’t. The type of device that interferes with the normal operating ability of the machine is generally a bit easier to recognize.

Thieves will look for an ATM that they can alter the face of and build an attachment for. In some cases, they may use a fabricated metal container of sorts that would fit onto the existing machine and may have a small laptop computer inside that would prompt the customer to use a touch screen instead of the machines actual keypad. It may also offer an alternate card reader next to it. With a small, undetectable camera recording your PIN number as you enter it attached to or near the ATM, the thief would have all the information he needed to access your account once you had finished attempting to process your transaction.

However, because you were actually using a fake card reader and prompting system, the final screen may read something like, “Thank you for using National Bank (or whatever type of banking machine you were using). There has been a malfunction.”

The type of skimmer that would not interfere with your transaction process would most commonly be found on banking machines that require you to swipe your card through an external, raised slot. Not on those where you manually slide your card into the actual machine in which the reader head would be buried inside the unit. This is because the external readers are much more accessible to thieves and the skimmer can be placed directly overtop of the actual reader strip. You as a customer can still make your withdrawal and the thief still gets your number. These types of devices are very difficult, if not impossible for the untrained eye to identify. ATM banking machines are not the only devices at risk when it comes to skimming. A skimmer can be attached to any type of system with an external reader, such as the one you use to pay your bill at the grocery store, gas station, department store or restaurant.

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Mail Stealing

admin — Sun, 20 Jun 2010 20:59:45 +0000

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If they’re bold enough to steal your garbage from the side of the road then you certainly shouldn’t put it past them to steal your mail. Of course it may be a bit easier for them if you have one of those road side mailboxes so that they appear less conspicuous than what they would walking up to your door.

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Remember though, these guys are smart and have probably been doing this for a long time. Printing off some bogus flyers and posing as someone delivering them so that they can more easily approach your front door and open up your mailing box isn’t exactly rocket science. Your mailbox can provide them with newly issued credit or banking cards, a new batch of checks for your personal or business accounts, investment reports, insurance statements, tax information and bank statements. Need I say more?

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Dumpster Diving

admin — Sun, 20 Jun 2010 12:31:18 +0000

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Imagine for a moment it’s that time of month we all detest – time to pay the bills.

As you sort through the pile of mail on your desk you first throw out all of that junk mail that you receive from every store you have ever been to who has put you on their mailing list (you know – so that they can make you aware of upcoming sales and promotions etc).

Oh yes, and we can’t forget about all the credit card and loan companies that want to let you know they have generously pre-approved you for a new credit card or loan.

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Let’s face it; those are probably destined for the garbage or recycling bin as well.

Once we have finally gotten to the task of actually paying those nasty bills, many of us discard of those statements also.

Bills that have account numbers, credit limits, contact information and all other types of personal information, are all very accessible in your garbage can as it sits waiting patiently on the side of the road all ready for the garbage truck to come by in the morning and collect it.

Don’t think for a minute that thieves have too much pride to go digging through your trash to find what they’re after, because believe me, they don’t!

If they happen to grab your entire bag of trash on the same week that you paid your bills then they just hit the personal information lottery!

Think of all the damage they could do with everything you threw away by opening up new credit card accounts with those pre-approved notices you received.

All they’d have to do is respond to the notices, tell the credit company that you’ve moved and provide a mailing address that they could access and boom…thousands and thousands of dollars in debt built up in no time at all, debt that you are not likely to become aware of for months.

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Methods Of Identity Theft

admin — Sun, 20 Jun 2010 12:15:12 +0000

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Okay so I’m just going to warn you up front that this is where things might get a bit scary.
As we start to discuss all of the various ways in which identity theft can occur, you may begin to realize just how vulnerable you might be.

Now remember, the intention of this book is certainly not to frighten the living daylights out of you, nor is it to turn you into a paranoid, crazy person who decides that they don’t trust anyone anymore and that they now must cancel all of their credit cards, close out their bank account and hide all their cash under the bed mattress in an attempt to leave a paperless trail in everything that they do. The actual intention of this book is quite simple.

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Let’s make you aware of how identity theft does occur so that you can walk away with the knowledge of what precautions to take so that it doesn’t ever affect you.

And if the worst-case scenario does present itself and you do become a victim, the following post will ensure that you are not at a loss as to how to deal with it, what actions you must take to correct the problem, or how stop it before it gets worse. In the coming posts let’s look at identity theft methods.

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Identity Theft It Can Affect Anyone

admin — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 20:46:55 +0000

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Like many, you may assume that identity theft only happens to those people who might be a bit more careless when it comes to safeguarding personal information. Or perhaps you are of the mindset that because you don’t really have a lot of money in your personal account or don’t have credit cards with large spending limits, that identity theft thieves wouldn’t necessarily target someone like yourself. Well, make no mistake about it; identity theft can happen to anyone, including you! Basically, if you have an identity (and we hope that you do) then you are susceptible.

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The size of your financial worth does not matter, nor whether you rent or own your home, nor whether you have exceptional credit or bad. The fact is still this, if you are reading this right now then you have an identity and because of which you are certain to have one, if not many of the following: a name, a bank account, a credit card, a telephone, a SSN, a job, a birth date, an email and internet account, a mailbox, an address, and the list goes on and on. And I hate to break this to you my friend but here’s my point, it only takes one of the above pieces of information to fall into the wrong hands and you too, like millions of others can become a victim of identity theft.

Not As Difficult As You Think

Still think it’s not that easy for someone to get your personal information? Well let’s not be naïve about this, it’s not as difficult as you think it is. Take a moment to think about all of the companies, organizations, businesses and online sites that might have access to ANY of your personal information. Think about all of the people whose hands your mail at home or at work must pass through before it reaches its intended destination.

Think about all of that extremely personal information you include on your resume when you’re job hunting and that you will send it out to who knows how many companies? Your complete work history, name, contact information and possibly references are all included in your resume! What about where you work now? They have access to more of your personal information than even what your spouse or parents might have! Now think about all of the people who your employer passes that information onto, such as the insurance company, and not only your own bank but their bank as well, and let’s not forget the company that processes payroll! The list is endless and in just a little while we will discuss all the ways in which you can protect yourself against identity theft. For now however, let’s take a look at all of the methods in which thieves might use to access your personal information.

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What is identity theft – Types of identity theft

admin — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 11:06:17 +0000

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As the quickest growing crime in America, identity theft affects approximately 7 –10 million people every single year.
Simply put, identity theft is the act of using someone else’s personal information, or their actual identity for personal gain. Frighteningly it happens without you even knowing it and once you have become aware of it, in most cases the damage has already been done.

Types of Identity Theft

Although there are many different methods that one can utilize to rip someone off in an identity theft type scam, there are really only two basic types of actual identity theft.
The first of these is generally the easiest and most basic way for thieves to achieve their objective. An example of Account takeover is when a thief gets hold of your actual physical credit card, or perhaps just the card number and expiry date, using it to purchase services or products. This works out extremely well for the thief, as the credit card owner doesn’t usually notice the additional purchases until they either receive their monthly statement in the mail or have attempted to use the card and found that it has reached the maximum limit allowed.

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The second type of identity theft is called Application fraud, or what is otherwise known as “true name fraud”. In order for a thief to be successful at application fraud, they must have access to a good deal of your personal information such as your Social Security Number (SSN), full name, address, place of work, salary, driver’s license number, date of birth etc. Of course not all of these pieces of information would be necessary for a thief to get away with application fraud but certainly a combination of some of the above would be required.

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