Identity Theft
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Employment Identity Theft
- April 29, 2021
- Posted by: Mindy Leisure Director of Rescoring Services
- Category: News
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Tax Time Identity Theft
- March 7, 2019
- Posted by: Mindy Leisure Director of Rescoring Services
- Category: News
Identity theft increases by seven percent during tax season from March through June. What is the primary source of this identity theft? Your mailbox. If you use “snail mail” to pay bills or receive checks you need to be aware, especially during this time of year. These identity thieves are not the high tech savvy
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New laws will make it easier to protect your child from Identity Theft
- August 30, 2018
- Posted by: Mindy Leisure Director of Rescoring Services
- Category: News
In a study from Javelin Strategy and Research published in May, more than one million children were victims of identity theft in 2017. Of those, 66% were under the age of eight. Up until now it was next to impossible to freeze a child’s credit file because there was no history for them. Children are
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How Safe is Your Child’s Identity?
- November 16, 2017
- Posted by: Joel Firestone (G-Net Consulting)
- Category: News
In this day and age everyone has been taught at least a few ways to protect their identities against theft. But what about your children’s identities? Social security numbers are issued at birth and since kids usually don’t use them until they are older, they are a prime target for identity theft. According to the
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The Equifax Breach – What You Need to Know
- September 28, 2017
- Posted by: Joel Firestone (G-Net Consulting)
- Category: News
So you’ve found out you were one of the 143 million people who were possibly compromised by the Equifax breach. What exactly does that mean and what should you do now? What it means is that hackers stole names, addresses, social security numbers and even driver’s license information. In some cases all this information was
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A New and Dangerous Form of Identity Theft
- May 4, 2017
- Posted by: Joel Firestone (G-Net Consulting)
- Category: News
“Synthetic Identity Theft” now makes up 80% of all ID thefts in the country at this time. Never heard of it? A lot of people haven’t. What is it? A thief takes one piece of your true identity (usually a social security number) and then combines it with false information such as a different name,
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Identity Theft – It’s a Matter of When Not If
- June 2, 2016
- Posted by: Joel Firestone (G-Net Consulting)
- Category: News
No matter how well you protect yourself, chances are at some point you will become a victim of some sort of identity theft. It is virtually impossible, no matter what you do, that you will be 100% protected. In reality your identity probably already has been stolen and just not used yet. According to the
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Don’t Let Identity Theft Ruin Your Vacation
- June 19, 2014
- Posted by: Joel Firestone (G-Net Consulting)
- Category: News
Over 30,000 identity thefts occur each day with one quarter of these happening to people who are on vacation or traveling. Now that we are in the height of vacation travel, there are some fairly simple steps you can take to make sure this does not happen to you. Be proactive. Don’t wait for your
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Mortgage Fraud: The Newest and Fastest Growing Form of Identity Theft
- June 5, 2014
- Posted by: Joel Firestone (G-Net Consulting)
- Category: News
After years of hard work you have finally paid off your house. Your credit cards are paid off and the kids are off on their own. You are debt free! Then one day the Sheriff shows up on your door with an eviction notice because you have not been making your payments on your Home