Articles Index
Protecting Your Personal Information: What Data Should You Protect?
You're told all the time to protect your personal information, but do you know what to protect? What information is it that identity thieves are after? And is some information more valuable than others? Find out what personal information thieves want most in this article.
5 Ways to Protect Yourself From Mortgage Scams
Mortgage fraud is often one of the results of identity theft. Learn how to protect yourself from mortgage fraud and prevent criminals from stealing your home right out from under you.
Warning: Identity Thieves Want Your Home
Identity thieves are interested in your identity for what they can gain from it. When they can access your mortgage or the deed to your home, that can be literally the roof over your head. Your learn what the top mortgage scams are so that you can protect yourself from criminals that would use your information to steal your home.
5 Tax Time Identity Theft Scams and How to Protect Yourself
Tax time is a stressful time for most people. But identity theft can make it even more stressful. Tax time scams are common and growing in popularity. Learn what your tax time risks are and how to protect yourself from tax time identity theft.
Identity Thieves Love Your Gadgets, Too!
Your cell phone, iPod, and GPS system might be putting you at risk for identity theft. These gadgets can be used by identity thieves to gain access to your personal information. Learn how to protect your identity by securing your personal gadgets.
How to Protect Your Identity from Employment Scams
Unemployment rates keep rising. But identity thieves don't care if you're out of work. They'll take advantage of you anyway with employment scams designed to steal your personal information. Learn how to protect yourself from identity theft employment scams.
Three Tips for Keeping Your Wallet or Purse Safe From Identity Thieves
A stolen wallet or purse can mean more than just losing your cash and credit cards. It can also mean that your identity is at risk. Learn how to protect belongings and prevent identity theft
Five Tips for Online Shopping Safety
The majority of identity theft takes place in the real world, away from the Internet. But the Internet is still a commonly used tool in identity theft, and Internet shopping is one area in which you are at risk. Learn online shopping safety tips to help protect your identity and your credit.
Three Ways to Create (Identity Theft) Killer Passwords
Your passwords for Internet sites of all kinds are literally the keys to your online kingdom. All too often, people use passwords that are easy to guess. Learn how to protect your online domain from identity theft with strong passwords.
How Identity Theft Happens: Small Business is Big Profit
Small businesses often believe they're too small to interest identity thieves, but they're wrong. Identity thieves have an intense interest in small businesses as Jennifer and Rick learned when their small business identity was stolen by a check forgery ring dealing in gray market goods.
Natural Disasters: Protect Your Identity
Identity thieves never take a break. They're always looking for the next opportunity and natural disasters, like hurricanes, tornadoes, and earthquakes offer lots of opportunity. Learn how to protect your identity in the wake of a natural disaster
Recovering From Identity Theft: Repairing Your Credit Reports
Identity theft usually hits victims where it hurts most: in the wallet. If you've been victimized by identity theft, you want to clean the mess up quickly. This article walks you through the basics of fixing your credit report after identity theft.
Recovering From Identity Theft: Your Rights as a Consumer
It's frightening to realize that your identity has been stolen. But the sooner you realize it, you can begin to repair the damages. Before you even start the repair process, however, you need to understand your rights as a consumer. This article explains them.
Credit Monitoring Services: Do They Protect You From Identity Theft?
The explosive growth of identity theft has prompted an equally explosive growth in the number of credit monitoring services available to consumers. But are they worth the investment? This articles explores the value of credit monitoring services.
Your Risky Mailbox: Identity Theft 101
The most commonly used means of identity theft in the real world is mail theft and redirection. This article explains the crime and provides tips for protecting your mail and your identity.
How to Report Identity Theft
No matter how you learn about identity theft, reporting it quickly and to the right agencies and companies is essential. These steps will help you quickly begin to regain control of your identity.
Reporting Identity Theft 101
Identity theft happens to even those who protect their identities closely. But when it happens, you want to report it as quickly as possible to limit your liability. Use these steps to quickly report suspected identity theft.
College Identity Theft: A Growing Problem
College students are at high risk for identity theft. To protect themselves, they need to understand what identity theft is, where they are at risk, and what steps to take if they suspect identity theft. All of that information is included in this article.
Seniors: Protecting Yourself From Identity Theft
Seniors make attractive identity theft targets because they have life-long credit worthiness, retirements funds, and can be too trusting. If you're a senior, learn how to protect your identity before someone steals your life's work.
Vacation Time: Protecting Yourself From Identity Theft
Vacation should be a time to relax and enjoy yourself, but it can turn into an identity theft nightmare if you're not careful. Learn how to protect your identity while you're on vacation.
Spear Phishing: Identity Theft’s New Black
Phishing is already a mainstay in identity theft attacks, but now a new method of attack is emerging. Spear phishing targets individuals and can be far more costly than its predecessor. Learn what spear phishing is and how to protect yourself.
Credit Card Protection Basics
Credit card fraud and identity theft are not the same crimes. But you still need to protect yourself from credit card fraud. Learn how in this article.
How It Happens: Identity Theft 101
Identity theft always catches victims by surprise. Knowing how it happens won't stop that surprise, but it will help you to be cautious about how you handle your personal information.
Dumpster Diving: Identity Theft 101
One very commonly used low-tech identity theft method is dumpster diving. That's whens someone goes through your trash looking for useful information. Learn how dumpster diving happens and how to protect yourself.
Protect Your Computer from Spyware
Spyware is one of the most prevalent methods that identity thieves use to collect the information needed to steal your identity. Learn how to recognize and protect your computer from spyware threats.