Each year, millions of Americans have their identity stolen. The Federal Trade Commission wants you to have the information you need to protect yourself against identity theft. This video can help educate viewers to save time and money by minimizing the risk of becoming a victim and reducing the emotional stress that often comes with identity theft. For more information, visit www.ftc.gov/idtheft.

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TJ Maxx Wireless Hackers Data Breach effects 47.5 million consumers www.IDTheftSecurity.com

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www.IDTheftSecurity.com Media hits for Identity Theft Expert and Speaker on Personal Security. www.IDTheftSecurity.com

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If you have been reading the technology columns lately and you wonder about what is identity theft , it’s possible your wandering mind might at some point wonder if you could already be a victim. There is a website that helps you find out if you are: MyIDScore. This online tool has been around for about a year now. Once you get to the website, you just fill in your personal information – name, date of birth, address and phone number, and your Social Security information. The site then attempts to place you and asks you a number of questions about who you are; it goes through every digitized financial transaction record it has and finds out if anyone else appears to be using your personal information. This technology has been in use for a while now, and it helps banks find out how far to believe the personal information that clients bring in when they apply for a new credit card.

MyIDScore calculates your ID security by using the identity database that belongs to ID Analytics. The database holds millions of pieces of personal identity data – people’s names, their contact information, their Social Security numbers – information they glean from change of address forms and other sources. You’ll know that there’s been fraud done, if it finds it there has been an application made for a loan or credit card, and the address listed is yours. Almost all people get the safe low score of around 300. Anyone who gets a higher score than that, will be asked to get in touch with a non-profit organization called the Identity Theft Resource Centre for a free investigation. This could be a lot of help if this is the first time you’re venturing in this direction wondering what is identity theft and how it can affect you. But for anything more heavy-duty than that, there are more established ways of checking. You could check your credit report from time to time, for instance.

Of course being able to check your identity score on demand can possibly turn you a bit complacent, and have you lower your guard, which isn’t a good thing. But are other ways too in which such an identity theft notification service may be less than useful. For instance, MyIDScore isn’t as comprehensive a search as it should be. It doesn’t look at all the credit card issuers or pay any particular attention to direct deposit account information. And medical identity theft doesn’t show up either. There have been a few cases where people have had MyIDScore give them a free pass, and still discovered that they’ve had instances of what is identity theft show up. Nothing is perfect though; even credit reports from the major credit bureaus are well known to go out with missing details. What you have here still is a very useful tool; ite gives you a free snapshot of how much you have to worry about.

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A ring of people spread across the globe hacked into nine major US companies and stole and sold more than 41 million credit and debit card numbers from 2003 to 2008, costing the companies and individuals hundreds of millions of dollars, federal law enforcement officials said yesterday. www.IDTheftSecurity.com

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Two women who were victims of Credit Card Identity Theft, fraud and new account ID theft speak out. 1of2 www.IDTheftSecurity.com

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NY based crime ring commits Identity Theft stealing Credit Cards from restaurant patrons www.IDTheftSecurity.com

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IDENTITY THEFT PREVENTION: How to prevent ID Theft with nothing but your telephone.

Listen. You don’t need identity theft insurance. It’s a joke. Have you ever read the guarantees on those things? Has more holes in it than swiss cheese.

All they’re doing is charging you to do what you can do yourself. We’re not talking about you doing your own root canal here. Were talking about making a some phone calls… and then setting a reminder on outlook express to make 1 phone call every 90 days. It’s a joke. You don’t need to pay $150 a year (or more) for Identity Theft Insurance. Well, maybe you do, if you want to support someone in an MLM or Network Marketing Company (maybe).

Hey, I’ve bought crazy juices, vitamins even a dumb water filter just to get my friends to quit bugging me about their MLM opportunities before. I admit it! There you go. But when it comes to ID THEFT PREVENTION, that’s different.

You can do it better yourself. Just watch BOTH videos parts 1 and 2. Together they are worth a couple hundred bucks. No kidding!

Listen. You’re going to learn how to get your credit reports not once a year but twice a year – FOR FREE! Not only that. No one is going to be able to get approved for ANY credit ANYWHERE without the creditor first calling you at the telephone number on your credit report! How you like them apples? and… were just getting started.

You’re also going to learn how to protect yourself from all the people (like in hospitals in dental offices) who have your Social Security Number (SSN) and your Date of Birth (DOB) not too mention your address and phone number and drivers licenses number….

Listen… this is worth your time. be sure to watch part 1 and part 2. The Identity you save could be your own! And while you;re at it please RATE THIS VIDEO and share it with others. They’ll appreciate it and you might even get some GOOD KARMA points to boot!

Thank for your support. It is appreciated.

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