Articles and Ideas April, 2008
We recently had the chance to chat with Cortney Read, Communications Coordinator for Lifelock. Lifelock is the leading company offering identity theft protection. With identity theft and security breaches so prevalent in the news today, it is more important than ever to protect yourself. We asked Cortney how they protect their customer's data and what distinguishes them from the competition.
Q: LifeLock has quickly risen to the top spot in the identity theft protection field. What distinguishes your product from that of competing companies?
A: LifeLock takes a proactive approach to help protect consumers before they become victims ...
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In the US alone, there are almost 15,000 criminal organizations that are trying to scam the elderly. Each year that passes, these thieves and con artists will net more than $40 billion dollars from their victims, and that amount continues to rise. Everyone is susceptible to a scam of some kind, but seven out of ten of these criminal acts will be geared toward senior citizens.
Most men will die long before their wives, and these older women will sometimes have to take care of their finances alone. If the husband dealt with the financial work by himself, these women ...
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Scams and fraud crimes are most dangerous when they are highly complex and there is little information available to successfully warn and educate potential victims and the public at large. A fairly new and little known scam involves two common crimes, mortgage fraud and identity theft, and it goes by the names of "home stealing" or "house stealing".
This crime is so new that the average home owner may be unaware that they are the targets of a new scam. Warnings need to go out at a faster rate, because according to the FBI, new or not, home stealing crimes ...
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