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Avoid Credit Card Fraud and Identity Theft by Taking Precautions

By admin • Jun 18th, 2009

Would you buy something in a store if you knew the credit card machine would broadcast your financial information to an organized gang sitting anywhere in the world? Probably not! But, most people know their personal information is not secure when shopping over the internet but they still opt for this mode of shopping and [...]



What Is Fraud Alert?

By admin • Jun 2nd, 2009

Identity theft has proved to be an ever-growing problem. The top-most method of getting control over it is by receiving notification as soon a credit card or even a bank loan application is made under your personal information. Of course, you can monitor you credit report at a regular basis, but a more helpful step [...]



Improving Your Credit Report After Identity Theft

By admin • Mar 18th, 2009

One of the steps that you must take after you have found that you have been the victim of identity theft is to get your get your credit report back in order. Unfortunately, one of the effects of having been the victim of identity theft is that your credit report will be out of order. By that is meant that you can have erroneous entries on your credit report. Moreover, your credit score will not be at the level that it should it be – that it would be had you not been the victim of identity theft.