Know Your Identity Theft Hotline

Found some discrepancies in your credit card statement or your credit report and suspect you’ve been victimized by identity thieves, who should you call? You should know your identity theft hotline. You can also call your bank, your credit card company and the store where you have a credit line, this should be done in [...]

Protect Yourself From Identity Theft

In the last year alone , identity theft has claimed over nine million victims in the US alone, and about 85% of these victims only realized that they have been victimized until it’s too late, when unknown charges have been made to their credit cards and/or something’s gone wrong with their credit report. Only the [...]

How To Protect Yourself From Identity Theft

Perhaps the most sensible identity theft prevention tip is finding out just where your lifestyle and habits are most susceptible to attacks. You may want to invest in some knowledge on how to protect yourself from identity theft.  Here are some tips you can utilize to ensure your protection.
Tip #1: Have Credit, Will Shop!
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Top 5 Websites: Personal Identity Theft Resource Center

The US government and consumers industries have some of the best identity theft resource center you can find, they offer a lot of resource materials you can download as virtual handbooks usually in PDF format. These are the top 5 websites you can visit for more information on identity theft:
1. The Federal Trade Commission
2. The [...]

Should You Get An Identity Theft Insurance Coverage?

In the recent years, there was a drop in cases of identity theft among Americans (from over 10 million in 2003 to 9 million for 2006), a considerable market still exists for identity theft insurance coverage. Part of the reason is the many horror stories played up in the media, but it is also partly [...]