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- How Identity Theft Works - Comprehensive information on identity theft and how to protect yourself from becoming a victim.
- Ad-Aware - "Designed
to provide advanced protection from known data-mining, aggressive advertising, parasites, scumware, selected
traditional trojans, dialers, malware, browser hijackers, and tracking components."
- Federal Trade Commission: Your National Resource for Identity Theft - United States Federal Government home for fighting Identity Theft.
- Sample Fraud Alert Letter - Sample letters to
request that credit agencies don't help criminals steal your identity. It is a shame that credit agencies
don't take simple steps to prevent the increasing problem of identity theft.
- Identity Theft: Action and Prevention for Consumers - from Consumer Union (publisher of
Consumer Reports). Tips to avoid id theft and tips for reacting if you identity is stolen.
- FTC Identity Theft Report - "Including all types of ID Theft, a total of 4.6 percent of survey participants indicated that they had
discovered they were victims of ID Theft in the past year."
- Privacy Rights Clearinghouse - Identity Theft Resources - Excellent resources including Reducing the Risk of Identity Theft fact sheet
- Fight Identity Theft - "The goal of
Fight Identity Theft is to make you more aware of the risks of identity theft and to present clear steps you can
take to protect yourself."
- 14 ways to stop identity theft cold - Article by Frank
Abagnale with specific, practicle suggestions to protect yourself.
- Guarding Against Online Identity Thef - "Be proactive... place a fraud alert on your credit report prior to becoming a victim... any time someone
tries to change the information on your credit report or open up a new account, the credit card company has to
call you first for verbal
- Avoiding Identity Theft: A Primer - October 2003 Washington Post article.
- Identity Theft: Fact and fiction - News.com article by Jonathan J. Rusch, 2002.
- Information on California Law on Identity Theft Prevention - Learn about
the 2002 law on the Fight Identity Theft site. Why hasn't your state of the United States congress allowed
consumers to protect themselves this way? Congress is thinking of removing the right of California's to
protect thems
- FTC, Businesses Renew Fight Against ID Theft - Washington Post article by David McGuire, 3 Sep 2003: "the FTC concluded that as many as 27.3 million
Americans were victims of identity theft in the last five years."
- How Can I Protect Myself Against Identity Theft? - From the West
Virginia Office of The Attorney General.
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