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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Stop Identity Theft of a Deceased Family Member
Here are 5 steps to take after a loved-one has passed away to make sure that their identity rests in peace:
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Do Not Call Registry for Cell Phones?
Do I need to add my cell phone number to a Do Not Call list in order to keep telemarketers from contacting me on my mobile phone? No. But you should add it to the list anyway. Right now, cell phone numbers are not being released to telemarketers, but they might be in the future. For details, visit the Federal Trade...
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