Monthly Archives: March 2009

Child Identity Theft

Randy Vezina asked:  When a child is born, a parent may apply for a Social Security number for that child.  A child’s Social Security number is very much sought after by identity thieves.  The child identity thief could be a family member (uncle, aunt cousin), another adult … Continue reading

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Online Reputation Management & Identity Theft Protection

Ruzain Ghosh asked: Reputation is most important in anyone’s life. People generally do not bother or do not know about Internet Reputation Management and when they realize that someone has defamed them by posting an obscene video on Youtube or … Continue reading

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Identity Theft Prevention

iwalletusa asked: Identity theft is one of the fastest growing crimes in the US and has now reached in epidemic dimension. Identity theft simply refers to a fraudulent activity in which one person steals another person’s personal information including credit … Continue reading

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Organisations Protecting Against Identity Theft

John Goldman asked: Identity theft is becoming more sophisticated and hard to manage by ever passing day where id thieves are finding out new ways to steal your identity. This rapid growth in the number of cases in identity theft … Continue reading

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Recent Identity Theft Statistics

Keith Londrie asked: Identity theft (ID theft or identity fraud) is the deliberate appropriation of an individual’s personal information to impersonate that person in a legal sense. Stealing someone’s identity enables the thief to make a frightening number of financial … Continue reading

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Identity Theft and Computer Crimeware: Bots

Randy Vezina asked:  The term “bot” is for robot.  Not the kind of robot you have seen in movies and television shows (does anyone remember ‘Lost In Space’?) or the one at the car assembly plant.  Bots are now one of the … Continue reading

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