Warning: The IRS Does Not Ask For Donations

October 31, 2008

Recently, a new phishing e-mail has been circulating. The e-mail is the IRS asking for donations to help the victims of the California wildfires. The e-mail is a scam. The IRS is not and never will ask for donations, let alone send out an e-mail asking for financial and personal information. The e-mail seems real [...]

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Grocery Store Scammed for $10,000,000. Really.

October 31, 2008

Who would have thought that a big company like SuperValu would be susceptible to an e-mail scam and almost lose $10 million?! Well, it happened just a few months ago. In February they received e-mails supposedly from American Greetings Corp. and Frito-Lay indicating new bank accounts had been set up and payments should be wired [...]

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Ready to Celebrate the Fifth Anniversary of the Do Not Call Registry?

October 31, 2008

Maybe you’re not ready to celebrate, but telemarketers all over the country are excited about the big day. Why, you may ask? Because your telephone number will automatically come off the Do Not Call list and back onto the desks of telemarketers. How can that be? Well, here’s a refresher course on how the Do [...]

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Warning: Your Identity Could be Stolen by a Frog

October 31, 2008

Who would have thought that befriending a frog could be dangerous? Well, it is, if that frog has access to things like your e-mail address, birth date, home address, work info or school info. You may say to yourself that you would never be so foolish, but what kind of info do you post on [...]

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Identity Theives Target Better Business Bureau

October 31, 2008

There’s no limit to where identity thieves will stop; including the Better Business Bureau. It’s not the first time the BBB has been the target of identity theft schemes,…

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Is Obama Blind to Identity Theft/Fraud?

October 31, 2008

News sources have been buzzing furiously the last few days about campaign contribution irregularities in the Obama campaign. It seems that anyone, using any name, and any credit card number…

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Identity Theft Task Force Reports Some Progress

October 31, 2008

In 2006, President Bush established the Identity Theft Task Force in an effort to reduce the number of identity thefts that take place each year. Since then, identity theft has…

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Is It Identity Theft or Not?

October 31, 2008

One of the more common ways that stolen identities are used is by illegal immigrants who want to work in the US. For a fee, an immigrant can purchase a…

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National Protect Your Identity Week

October 31, 2008

Early in October I posted about National Protect Your Identity Week. Well, it’s here! This week officially kicks off the National Protect Your Identity activities. Check out…

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Is Your Bank Really Merging?

October 31, 2008

I’ve probably already said it a few hundred times, but it bears repeating: Phishers will take advantage of any situation to gain access to your personal information. And the current…

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