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Below you’ll find our selection of the top 10 ways you can prevent identity theft. Make sure you read them all and try to remember and apply these tips in your everyday life. 1. Don’t give out your social security number This is the most basic thing: you never want to give out your social security number to anyone you don’t trust. And you should always assume the person you’re…

Every year the Federal Trade Commission collects data on consumer complaints in the United States. For the 14th consecutive year identity theft is once again at the top of the chart of most reported consumer complaints. According to the FTC consumers lost $1.6 billion due to various forms of ID theft. From a total of 2 million complaints filed to FTC, law enforcement agencies and consumer complaint agencies 290,000 (or 14%) were…

We all have mobile phones these days. Frankly, most of us can’t even picture our lives without them anymore. Using cell phones for making calls and sending an occasional text message doesn’t necessarily put you at a high risk of identity theft, but nowadays with the increasing popularity of smartphones, we use them for many other purposes. Logging in to you Facebook account, sending online payments, sharing pictures, googling for…

The news about the severe security breach that occurred a few weeks ago were covered by almost all news and media both online and offline, so you’ve surely heard something about it already. It’s one of the greatest successful hacks in recent history in which many personal details about 77 million people around the world were obtained by a third, unknown party. The personal details that were stolen included first and…