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While tragedy can bring out the best of humanity, like all the donations and efforts being made for the survivors in Haiti.  Unfortunately, tragedy also brings out the identity thieves.  There are a wide variety of donation scams going around with the intention of stealing your money, and even your identity.  Identity thieves choose dark [...]

An identity thief uses many techniques to rip you off your personal information. From installing a malicious program and stealing your data to just asking for information, they do everything in their might. Therefore, you need to be extra careful when sharing your personal information with anyone. You should guard it the way you would [...]

Identity verification and identity authentication are two methods available to an online retailer to verify the credential of its customers. Both ways provide some security to the online transaction done online, but the latter one is more secure than the former because of the anonymity of the internet.
Identity verification is the process in which you [...]

Protecting yourself from identity theft isn’t very difficult.  In most cases it only requires making a few life and social changes.  Changes that really won’t be that evident in the long run, but could be the difference between becoming a victim of identity theft.  After all, wouldn’t it be great to know that your identity [...]

There are many ways that identity thieves will try to get at your information.  Knowing those ways is great protection, as you’ll know how to combat every avenue an identity thief will use.  So thinking like a thief isn’t a bad idea, because you’ll be able to better protect yourself.  By strongly considering the ways [...]

Among the types of identity theft that are out there is synthetic identity theft.  Through synthetic identity theft a potential thief assumes a fictional identity in order to gain employment, credit/bank accounts, bank loans, etc.  But how does this affect you in the long run?  If someone has become a synthetic identity thief, therefore they’re [...]

A strong password is not only your first line of defense against identity thieves, but it’s also the most important tool to keep burglars away from your online profiles. We have discussed about the importance of strong password in the article titled, “Why Do You Need a Strong Password?”, in this article I am going [...]

Password hacking is the most basic thing an identity thief will attempt, and they start with guessing the right password. They also attempt to hack your password by using your personal data known to them. We call it reverse social engineering. This is the reason why I suggest not sharing any personal details with online [...]

The Internet is a dangerous place. If you are not cautious enough, it strips you bare in front of many who are waiting to take advantage of you and your kid’s innocence. You may not be vulnerable, but your kids definitely are. They are too young to understand the traps laid by mischievous programmers and [...]

Identity theft methods have advanced with technology.  The vast majority of identity theft scams are found lurking on the internet.  One of those common scams you may not have thought about, is IP identity theft.  Your IP or internet protocol, is your computer’s address, and is used to find the location of your computer, as [...]

Another identity theft scam you may not have considered, is cell phone identity theft.  You cell phone is a huge window into your personal life.  The information your phone stores, in the wrong hands, could absolutely be used against you.  That’s why, as with everything else, you should be careful about how you use your [...]

Just like most retail businesses count on holiday spending to make their profits soar every year, identity thieves function the same way.  According to the FBI identity theft affects around 10 million Americans every year, and that amounts to nearly $52billion stolen.  Most of that accumulates over the holidays, where shoppers are less willing to [...]

We already know that the internet offers an unbelievable amount of information.  Even information about you, that you didn’t necessarily know was out there.  Keeping yourself safe from identity thieves means making sure this information isn’t so easily available.  The less they know about you, the less they can use against you, so here’s a [...]

There are so many ways that scammers will try and take advantage of you, it’s almost impossible to try and list them all.  Keeping up on the scams as much as possible is a necessity however.  If you want to keep yourself safe from the identity thieves lurking about.  Here are a few of the [...]