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Identity Theft: What you Need to Know About it

by joe on February 11, 2010

The use of your personal data such as your name, address, telephone number, credit card, and mother’s maiden name by other people is called identity theft, which is also known to be an identity fraud. It is the illegal use of your personality to commit crime or any illegal acts.Usually, the purpose of this crime [...]

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Bots and Cybercrime and Identity Theft

by joe on December 9, 2009

 No one person can say for sure how large a role bots play in cybercrime today.  Cybercrime will, at some point, make use of a botnet to do everything from spamming to hosting fraudulent Web sites.  Internet security software giant Symantec has protected people from bots for a lot of years and has tracked the evolution of [...]

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Articles Concerning Identity Theft

by joe on July 30, 2009

Identity theft is when someone else assumes your personal information and poses as you. Therefore it’s not only just a question of stealing credit card numbers. There are several ways and places where your personal information can be stolen by the identity thieves.There are four different categories of identity theft; they include business or commercial [...]

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What you can do if you are a victim of identity theft

by joe on May 9, 2009

Terry Cordell asked: What are the first steps I should take if I’m a victim of identity theft?  If you are a victim of identity theft, take the following four steps as soon as possible, and keep a record with the items of your conversations and copies of all correspondence. Place a “fraud alert” on your credit [...]

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