Posts from ‘March, 2009’

Errors on your credit report - By checking your credit report yearly, you’ll be able to determine if anyone is opening up accounts in your name without your permission. Otherwise, you may not learn there is a problem until you need to take out credit.
Mail problems - One of the least-technological ways to commit identity [...]

Impostor Websites
The official IRS website is http://www.irs.gov/. Any other website claiming to be an official IRS website is a fake. Unfortunately, there are a lot of impostor sites out there, and many of them are engaged in identity theft. Some bogus sites are easy to spot for the seasoned Internet user because of their cheap [...]

Attorney General Steve Six issued a warning today about economic stimulus scams that have recently emerged. These scams seek to convince consumers that they have qualified for a portion of President Obama’s economic stimulus package. In reality they are attempts to either steal funds from the victim’s bank accounts or to steal their identity.
The scams [...]

If you’ve watched TV in the past year, you’ve probably seen the ads for FreeCreditReport.com. The idea is to get you to go to FreeCreditReport.com, which isn’t exactly free. If you read the fine print when you sign up at this site for your free credit report, you are actually authorizing them to bill your [...]

Last week the Identity Theft Resource Center warned job seekers to protect their personal information when they use the Web to look for work.
Since then, at least a dozen people have called fearing they fell for a scam, said Linda Foley, the center’s founder, even though there was a similar warning three months ago from [...]

The world leader in IT security, Panda Security, revealed the results of comprehensive identity theft study conducted by PandaLabs, malicious software analysis and detection laboratory. The research, based on the analysis of 67 million computers during 2008, unveiled that 1.1% of the Internet users worldwide have been actively exposed to identity theft malware. The results [...]

A new phishing scam was found yesterday by a security firm involving emails that appeared to come from Delta Airlines as a confirmation of a ticket purchased by the user.
The message, which has the subject Confirmation of ticket purchase at www.delta.com, asks the user to download and print their Passenger Itinerary Receipt to their machine, which [...]

About 7.5 percent of U.S. adults lost money as a result of financial fraud last year, mostly due to data breaches, according to a new Gartner study to be released on Tuesday night.
Recovering losses was easier for people victimized by brokerage, credit card, and debit card account fraud compared to victims of new loan account [...]