Protect Yourself Against Mail Fraud
8% of all known identity theft is committed by mail fraud and the misuse can last for up to 175 days. America's leading Identity Theft Expert gives you tips on how to protect your mail against Identity Theft and reduce your chances of becoming a victim.
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Google Dashboard Calms Privacy Critics
Google introduced the Google Dashboard on November 5th to help calm privacy critics.
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Fraud Report: SMiShing Identity Theft
Fraud Report: There is a new wave of fraud, called SMiShing that uses Text Messaging to lure you to divulge private data... Identity Theft Expert John Sileo shows you how to stop it.
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Uncovering Business Identity Theft
Small-businesses and organizations are increasingly becoming targets of Identity Theft. This is a serious threat, but it mostly flies under the radar simply because companies are embarrassed to discuss. Businesses and their owners must come forward to help uncover business identity theft so there will be more laws in place to deter criminals.
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Employee Background Checks
At an identity theft training for human resource managers, identity theft expert John Sileo explained that employee background checks are an easy way to lower the risk of insider theft and the resulting data breach. Here's what you need to know about background screening...
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Biometric Identity Theft: Stolen Fingerprints
According to identity theft expert John Sileo, Biometric Identification has its drawbacks, including more destructive types of identity theft.
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The Fear of Honesty
We've gone soft; we fear honesty. I think we even fear being honest with people more than we fear people being honest with us. Honesty has become synonymous with ugly confrontation, rather than just being, well, honesty.
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Cell Phone Tapping Solutions
Thanks to cell phone tapping software, your jealous spouse, nosy parent or dishonest competitor can track everything you say and text.
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Operation Get Rich or Die Tryin’ Still Lives
"Operation Get Rich or Die Tryin" teaches us two things: 1. identity theft is still easy enough to produce that it in turn produces massive repeat offenders and 2. The Secret Service doesn't know how to prevent social engineering. Identity Theft Expert John Sileo.
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Traveling Safety: Identity Theft Takes a Trip
Identity theft speaker John Sileo on: Traveling Safety has become a study of its own ever since the advent of identity theft. Your biggest concern may no longer be physical in nature (pickpockets, hotel theft, muggings); the value of the personal identity you carry as you travel is worth far more than the cash in your wallet. Take Traveling Safety...
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Data Breach Security: TJX is Our Fault!
Data Breach Security Alert: TJX lost somewhere between 40 and 90 million customer records, and there is a good chance yours was one of them if you shop at T.J. Maxx, Marshalls, HomeGoods or A.J. Wright. And it's our fault! Why?
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Laptop Anti-Theft: 7 Tips for Travelers
My point? In the world of workplace identity theft and corporate data breach, laptop computers are the biggest broken window. Not only do notebooks account for a disproportionate amount of data theft, but training the organization to properly protect mobile computers has a radiant effect on all other types of identity protection. Good habits in one area breed good habits...
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The 7 Deadly Sins of Privacy Leadership: How CEOs Enable Data Breach
Technology is not the root cause of identity theft, data breach or cyber crime. We are. Too often, technology is our scapegoat, providing a convenient excuse to sit apathetically in our corner offices, unwilling to put our money where our profits are. Unwilling, in this case, to even gaze over at the enormous profit-sucking sound that is mass data theft....
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An Identity Theft Lesson for Christmas Retailers (and shoppers)!
I just returned from a Kohl's store where I was picking up a gift card for our annual Christmas Eve gift card swap with my wife's family. Instead of giving everyone presents and going to all that work, we simply each buy a gift card for $10 that we think others would like to receive, and then we do a...
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Military Identity Theft Protection & Prevention Kit
Military personnel have unique and pressing reasons to pay extra attention to protecting their private information, as well as the private data of their loved ones, from identity theft.
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Identity Theft Prevention in a Hotel
I just finished giving an identity theft prevention and data privacy speech for Pfizer and one of the questions I received was how to protect your laptop, passports, client files, etc. when you leave them behind in your hotel room. I've blogged on this before, but thought that I would post a quick video reminder on protecting your identity in a hotel...
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Top Tips to Stop Tax Time Identity Theft
If you receive my newsletter, you've already seen this article on identity theft during tax season, but I thought I would re-post it here. Tax time is like Christmas for identity thieves. Our personal information sits out on desks (ours and our tax preparer's), is mailed improperly, emailed incorrectly and stored unsafely. And to top it all off, we are...
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Protect Your Laptop from Identity Theft while Traveling
I just finished speaking to an amazing group of financial advisors at the Lincoln Financial Group Planning Forum. This is a group of people who take the security of their business information, the privacy of their clients and their own personal data safety very seriously. It was an identity theft prevention speech, but specifically geared to the exceptional amount of identity handled by financial planners....
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Scrooge’s Top 10 Holiday ID Theft Protection Tips
"Might I have another lump of coal for the fire, Mr. Scrooge?" -Bob Cratchit (Dickens' A Christmas Carol) What in the world do we have to learn from Ebenezer Scrooge about protecting our identities during the busy holiday season? Plenty! Scrooge was a miserly old git who wouldn't share anything - his coal, his wealth, his love. The ghosts of...
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Hotel Key Cards & Identity Theft
I just checked out of my hotel room in NYC after delivering an identity theft speech to the most wonderful New Yorkers at the Federal Reserve Bank of NY, and it reminded me of a question I hear constantly as I travel: Can my identity be stolen off of the room key cards that hotels use? In my experience, the answer...
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