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Prevention Practices

Protecting your identity is a full-time job. Learn how to secure your personal information and lock down your personal identity. Prevention practices include securing your personal and financial information and knowing when you need identity theft insurance.
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.
How to Prevent Identity Theft

Identity theft affects just about everyone these days. Every day there are reports of new identity theft rings being infiltrated, new data breaches that put hundreds of thousands of people at risk, and myriad other ways that your identity is put at risk. It's become a matter of not if, but when will your identity be compromised.

The best way to stay safe, then, is to proactively preven…

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.
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.
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 Social Networking Puts Your Identity at Risk

There's always a news story about phishing and other identity scams in the news. Lately, those scams seem to focus on social networking apps, like Facebook and MySpace. In most of the stories, a phishing email is used to try to capture personal information, but viruses are circulating designed to do the same thing.

What you may not realize is how much information you're unknowingly pr…

Strategies for Preventing Identity Theft
Current statistics indicate that about 8 million people each year fall victim to identity theft. Among the ways that people are affected are credit and financial problems, tax issues, and even legal concerns. And it's costly and time consuming to repair the damages caused by identity theft. Instead of worrying about how to recover from identity theft, learn how to protect yourself from it.
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
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.
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.
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.
What Mail to Shred
One of the areas where you’re most at risk for identity theft is in your paper mail. More than 100 million pieces of mail are delivered by the USPS each day; mail that has identifying personal information that can be used to steal your identity. Learn what to shred and why in this article.
Should You Freeze Your Credit Report?
One way to stop identity theft is to freeze your credit report. Credit/Debt Management guide, LaToya Irby explains how.
How to Monitor Your Credit Report
Your credit report is center of your financial world. It's also the main target for identity theft. Learn how to monitor your credit report and keep your identity safe from identity theft.
The Ultimate Guide to Identity Theft Prevention
The first step to preventing identity theft is knowing how it happens. This prevention guide gives you all the details.
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