19,178 Identity Theft Victims Per Day - Are You One Of Them?
Identity theft statistics are shocking. And we are told that it will only become worse, before it gets any better. Are you likely to be affected? According to recent studies, up to 7,000,000 people become identity theft victims each year, in the United States alone. That's over 19,000 cases a day, or 799 cases an hour. Whichever way you...

Cyber Fraud & Identity Theft Prevention
There are many people out there that have DSL or cable connections that don't have proper firewalls or up to date antivirus programs in place. Too many think it just came with the computer. This can create a breach and your privacy violated. The General Accounting Office now puts identity theft at 750,000 victims a year. Victims spend an average...

Fighting Identity Theft
Chances are good that you know someone who has been victimized by the fastest growing crime - identity theft. The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) reported that there were 10 million cases of identity theft in 2002 alone. It’s estimated that someone’s identity is stolen every 79 seconds. The bad news is with increasing amounts of personal...


Identity Theft
LexisNexis, a provider of personal and financial data, recently reported that the personal information of as many as 310,000 people nationwide may have been stolen. This figure is nearly 10 times higher than the original figure disclosed last month by the company. ChoicePoint Inc., another consumer data collection service, stated 145,000 people...

Identity Theft And The Internet
LexisNexis, a provider of personal and financial data, recently reported that the personal information of as many as 310,000 people nationwide may have been stolen. This figure is nearly 10 times higher than the original figure disclosed last month by the company. ChoicePoint Inc., another consumer data collection service, stated 145,000...

Identity Theft: Count the ways
I received an e-mail message from "Paypal" not to long ago. The e-mail stated that PayPal needed me to update and verify my security information for their database. I didn't. One of the sentences in the e-mail read: "Complete the necessary verification tasks within 5 days, or your account might get temporarily suspended." That didn't sound...



Latest News:

Lifelock Shows Identity Theft Services Not Foolproof (LiveScience.com via Yahoo! News)
Lifelock, one of a legion of identity theft protection service companies, made a name for itself by plastering its CEO Todd Davis' social security number all over company advertisements.

Identity theft company settles complaint (UPI)
PHOENIX, March 10 (UPI) -- U.S. identity-theft protection company LifeLock Inc. will pay $12 million to settle a complaint alleging false advertising of its services, authorities said.

Meeting addresses fraud, identity theft (The Record and Herald News)
With thousands stolen from residents so far this year, Nutley Public Safety Commissioner Al Petracco and Police Det. Tom Perrota held a neighborhood watch meeting to enable citizens to protect themselves against identity theft and fraud.

Identity theft is topic of meeting in Mount Olive Township (Mt. Olive Chronicle)
MOUNT OLIVE TWP.—Avoiding identity theft will be the focus of the Mount Olive Area Chamber of Commerce meeting on Tuesday, March 16, at Paragon Village on Route 46.