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Are you aware of how many ways there are for thieves to take access of your credit card accounts and make unauthorised charges against your account? Simply by rummaging through old receipts that you have thrown out or left somewhere public, or by a shop assistant quickly scribbling down your card details while they are [...]

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Don’t wait until your identity has been “stolen” to worry about it.  Identity fraud is a severe crime with serious repercussions that can take months or even years for victims to repair, not to mention hundreds to thousands of dollars.  If someone has stolen a credit card, or has obtained enough information about you to [...]

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Congress is still hashing out which firms would have to tamp down.
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Debate Delays New Identity Theft Rule

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Filed under: Personal Finance , Credit Report , Credit Card , Lynnette Khalfani-Cox Fraud alerts help you thwart identity theft by preventing a crook from opening credit in your name. There are two types of fraud alerts: an Initial Alert and an Extended Alert. With an initial alert, an ID theft warning statement is placed [...]

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NEW YORK (AP) — A man charged in an identity theft scheme has been accused of killing two of his victims. An indictment unsealed Thursday in federal court in Brooklyn charges Dmitriy Yakovlev in the murder of a missing Russian-language translator.

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Hawaii’s biggest identity theft case started in May 2008 as a simple report of second-degree forgery. It has since expanded to include dozens of alleged victims on O’ahu and spread from Honolulu to Manhattan Beach in Southern California.

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Data breach at Cornell puts 45,000 at risk of identity theft. Be sure to safeguard all credit. (PRWeb Jul 6, 2009) Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/credit/monitoring/prweb2593814.htm

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It is a tough lesson in identity theft. A Boca resident who earns a living catching fraud, was victimized himself!

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A Lowell woman has been indicted for stealing at least 34 identities that she accessed at her job in a Waltham-based company, the name of which has not yet been disclosed.

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Police are searching for a group of identity theft suspects accused of stealing account numbers in Washtenaw County.
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Police Search For Identity Theft Suspects (WXYZ-TV Detroit)

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