Identity theft scams

By SamElli • November 11th, 2009

Keeping your identity safe means using common sense.  In every scenario you should always be protective of personal information.  Of course that doesn’t mean refusing to trust everyone around you.  But rather, being safe with your information as a personal practice.  Being safe is much better than being sorry.  Especially if it’s the difference in [...]

Being on guard while on vacation is essential if you want to protect your identity.  Especially if you happen to be vacationing in a different country.  Identity thieves are ready to pounce anywhere, and practically everywhere.  Protecting your information in the right way is absolutely vital.  By using common sense, and these tips, you should [...]

Surfing the internet safely, while protecting your identity, means knowing what you should avoid online.  There are all sorts of pitfalls online.  Traps just waiting to be sprung on an unsuspecting web surfer, or worse an unprotected web surfer.  There’s no limit on the ways that identity thieves will try to hurt you, so in [...]

Considering the most common forms of identity theft, most people usually only know of a few, and don’t often consider that something they’d never thought about could be used against them maliciously.  There are almost innumerable forms of identity theft that could occur, but most of them fall into the same five categories.  Those being: [...]

A common form of identity theft that most people don’t even necessarily know that they should worry about is mortgage fraud. Mortgage fraud is where a thief uses the information regarding your mortgage against you to do things like take out loans or put another mortgage on your house, ruining your credit rating, and netting [...]

Phishing is a new model cyberspace attack, in which the attacker masquerades a genuine entity and tricks you into providing important user information such as credit cards, account user names, passwords, etc. Usually phishing starts with an email or an instant message, appearing to be from the genuine entity, asking you to furnish important details [...]

In a recently growing identity theft scam, the Federal Trade Commission reports that thousands of U.S. taxpayer’s social security numbers have been stolen, resulting in tax fraud and missing tax refunds.

The internet has become an integral part of doing business across the globe. However it has opened up yet another avenue for criminals to commit various crimes. Identity theft and identity fraud are terms used to describe the unlawful activity of these criminals. People are wrongfully obtaining and using other people’s information for their own [...]

The saying ‘A fool is born every minute’ comes true online. But then, did you know the difference between being intelligent and being wise? An intelligent person learns from his own mistakes. A wise man learns from other people’s mistakes; and most of the people on the internet are extremely intelligent! There are literally thousands [...]

How can you be 100% sure you’re not the next target of the latest identity theft scam?  Currently there is an assortment of credit card identity theft scams circulating the web, and infiltrating your emails daily. Keeping track and recognizing each new scam is a difficult task and time consuming process of sorting out suspicious [...]