Is your identity safe?
If you've taken steps to guard against identity
theft by having your credit monitored, congratulations. You
know you need some kind of protection against this fastest
growing crime. That's the good news.
Here's the bad news: You are
still not safe.
You may even have increased the chances of
becoming a victim.
How can that be?
Credit fraud is a factor in just 33% of identity
theft cases. So if you are relying on one of those heavily
advertised programs that monitor credit, put fraud alerts on
credit bureau records, etc., you are still fully exposed to
the sources of 67% of identity theft. You wouldn't lock your
front door and then leave all your windows and the back door
unlocked. Would you?
The truth is that credit monitoring is
not identity protection.
Another truth: identity theft is not
preventable. Your personal information is scattered in
too many places, there are too many professional thieves, and
there are nowhere near enough law enforcement resources
available.
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Where thieves get
your information
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City & county offices (75% of U.S.
counties use social security numbers on public
records!)
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Hospitals & doctors' offices
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Schools & universities
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Retail stores
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Mortgage companies
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Banks
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Insurance companies
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Underground "ID" markets (the Internet
black market)
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Your personal computer (easy for
criminals to hack)
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More are listed in the free report,
Are you wasting your money on Credit
Monitoring?
How do criminals access your
records?
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They hack into the
files of companies and organizations every day. The
Identity Theft Resource Center, a non-profit
organization based in San Diego, recorded 656 data
breaches in 2008, an increase of 47% over
2007. More than 230 million records
containing social security numbers, drivers licenses,
dates of birth, bank account numbers, credit card
numbers, etc. have been stolen since January 2005 .
Yikes. That's over 70% of the population of the United
States! There's more bad news in the free report
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There's a new method of identity
protection that solves this problem. You can learn about that
also. Ready?
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Money on Credit Monitoring?"
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