With all my bills who would possibly want my credit? Let them steal my identity and pay my bills! Unfortunately, that¡¯s not the way it works. Many of us mistakenly believe that identity thieves hit only the wealthy. Nothing could be farther f ...

Recently passed by Congress with overwhelming support, the oddly-named Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act was designed to eliminate ¡°bankruptcy of convenience.¡± The perceived problem is that many compulsive gamblers, shoppers ...

Identity Theft is one of the most serious problems facing \rInternet users. Identity Theft is exactly as the name states \r-- someone steals your Identity and commits fraud in your name. \rIt can result in untold financial and legal problems that ...

While nothing is ever foolproof you can learn how to protect yourself from identity theft. Identity theft is the fastest growing crime in America today with victims reporting new cases to authorities at an alarming rate.

Last year alone in ...

Millions of Americans use credit cards, take out money from savings and checking accounts, write checks, and open new bank accounts everyday. By completing these everyday tasks, many Americans put themselves at risk for identity theft. However, th ...

His hard earned money? Gone. Creditors on his back everyday. Police knocking on his door. His family strained to the breaking point. He didn't do anything wrong but my business partner's life got turned upside down a few years back. He became a vi ...

It's no surprise that thousands of Americans are victimized by identity theft each year. Last year more than 9,000,000 people were victims of identity theft amounting to some $45 billion dollars.

By the time the average person realizes they ...

Identity theft is when someone uses, without permission, your personal information in order to commit any frauds or crimes. Identity theft is a felony that is becoming more and more common. That is because some of us are not very careful with pers ...

Chris Simpson, head of Scotland Yard's computer crime unit was unpleasantly surprised to learn how easy it is to cheat anybody out of his or her personal info -- by means of a fake survey.

This survey wasn't a scam; in fact, it was an exper ...

Sooner or later everyone with an email account will receive a phishing attempt from some internet scammer. What is phishing? How can you protect yourself? These are some of the questions this identity theft article will provide, along with so ...

Picture yourself walking down the street, all alone. It's late at night. It's a bit brisk, and the wind is blowing through the tall buildings on both sides of you. Suddenly, from out of nowhere, someone runs by you, knocks you over, grabs your wal ...

Preventing identity theft is never foolproof but here are some good tips that will make it more difficult for anyone to steal your personal information.

The first and most important step for preventing identity theft is keeping a close watch ...

Article excerpted from the new book, ¡°How to Do Space Age Work with a Stone Age Brain¡± TM copyright 2006, All Rights Reserved, by Eve Abbott, the Organizer Extraordinaire

Each year billions of dollars in credit fraud is perpetrated on unsusp ...

Under the 2003 amendments to the Fair Credit Reporting Act section 609(e), identity theft victims are entitled to get from businesses a copy of the application or other business transaction records relating to their identity theft free of charge.< ...

To reduce or minimize the risk of becoming a victim of identity theft or fraud, there are some basic steps you can take.

The most important one is to ask periodically for a copy of your credit report. This is crucial because it is the surest ...