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Posted on Sunday, 18th October 2009 by Admin

Identity Theft Expert Robert Siciliano

During National Protect Your Identity Week we will be taking a fundamental approach to the issues. In the next 3 posts we’ll look at myths, compiled by the National Foundation for Credit Counselors (NFCC) who is sponsoring a “Protect Your Identity Week” October 17 – 24.  To help support their efforts, The Santa Fe Group Vendor Council Awareness and Education Subcommittee helped create these tips.

Identity theft is preventable. Like any other kind of crime, there’s always a risk of becoming a victim of identity crime. But there

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Posted on Saturday, 17th October 2009 by Admin

About a little more than 2 years ago my mother started opening credit cards in my name. she had memorized my social security number and other information. she opened up 8-10 cards racked them up and didn’t pay them after the first few months. I moved out and was saving up for a car because my mother kept the one my grandmother gave me. I had just started forwarding the mail from our house when I started getting collections letters from credit card companies. she had stopped paying them for over 5-6 months.I knew that she had done it because when i applied for a Victoria secret card they told me i already had one and my mother was listed as an authorized user. she admitted to my step mom that she had done it. I came into some money when my grandmother died and i paid it off but now my credit is basically fuc***. I Read more…

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Posted on Saturday, 17th October 2009 by Admin

The Problem:

Are you bombarded with popup ads? Seeing new toolbars in your browser? Does your home page change to unwanted/unknown destinations? Bombarded with irritating spam? Perhaps strange software loads when you first start your computer, or your favorites file may have new entries that you don’t recognize and don’t want. If this is happening to you, your PC (Personal Computer) is most likely infected with adware spyware, spybot spyware, trojan viruses or other harmful internet parasites.

What Is Happening?

Your privacy is being seriously invaded. These programs have the ability to track your Internet and d of identity theft, haven’t you?) and you would never be the wiser, at least until it is too late (this would be when the bill collectors, or even the police, start calling you!).

To Determine If You Are At Risk, Ask Yourself These 3 Questions:

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Posted on Saturday, 17th October 2009 by Admin

As Twitter grows in popularity, it suffers from a corresponding increase in spammers. These days, your newest follower is more likely to be a spambot than a real person. And as spammers become increasingly sophisticated, it gets harder to tell the difference. Even the savviest Internet users can have difficulty discerning, at a glance, whether a particular tweet comes from a friend recommending an interesting article, or a spammer luring you to click on a malicious link. Those shortened URLs certainly don’t make it any easier.

Twitter is doing its best to stay on top of the issue. Most recently, they’ve added a tool to the Actions menu, which makes it as quick and easy as it possibly could be to flag a spam account. So next time a spambot follows you on Twitter, be sure to report it for spam instead of just blocking the account.

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Posted on Thursday, 8th October 2009 by Admin

Phishing e-mails and e-mails scams aren’t new. Unfortunately, they are getting even more sophisticated and successful. Why? Despite the growing awareness of phishing scams and computer viruses from e-mails that link to malware, scammers are becoming even better salesmen.

The first phishing scams that circulated were really just too good (or too bizarre) to be true for most readers. You remember the e-mail hoaxes that involved an African prince who wanted to share his great wealth with you if only… you would send your banking account numbers. Art Manion, a top vulnerability analyst for CERT, a Carnegie Mellon University internet emergency response group, scammer’s tactics are just getting better. Manion says, “Today, the e-mail looks like it’s from my bank or my company, with better grammar, more believable stories, and better URLs.” The more recent and well-publicized e-mail phishing hoaxes involved Pay Pal, the Better Business Bureau and e-bay.

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Posted on Monday, 5th October 2009 by Admin

Robert Siciliano identity theft expert

Passwords and forms harass and mock me every day of my life. Everywhere I go there is a big burly bouncer who is the password gatekeeper and he needs a beating. He won’t let me in or by the velvet ropes unless I know the secret code. Most of the time I know what he wants, but because I have so many passwords to remember (last count is 456, but less than 200 active/weekly sites), I sometimes forget. Then I try 2-3 other passwords that I think will work before I get locked out. I can’t have all the same passwords because wouldn’t it be just great if I got hacked.

Ultimately I have to go to a password protected file that stores them and begin the copy paste process. But even when I do that there are problems. Sometimes when a password is copied then pasted, the form won’t recognize it. It’s a

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