Media reports about online e-mail identity theft like the incident with Epsilon Marketing services often take the spotlight when it comes to ID theft, but the Better Business Bureau reminds consumers that most identity theft still occurs off-line when people neglect regular shredding schedules. Although online hackers and phishing scams dominate media headlines, a report ...
Complaints about identity theft in Florida dropped slightly last year, but the state still had the highest ID-theft complaint rate in the country, the U.S. government said Tuesday. ID theft complaints ebbed nearly 5 percent in the Sunshine State in 2010, the second straight year fewer people have reported being targeted by identity thieves, according ...
Imagine this: After e-filing your taxes, you find out that your return has been rejected – someone else has already filed using your Social Security number. Those who e-file their tax returns have new worries: fraudsters who steal social security numbers and “file” taxes online in order to steal refunds from the IRS. Thousands of ...
By the time Carlos Hernandez turned 18, little did he know his credit was trashed. Since the age of 9, he had obtained a mortgage, bought cars, obtained credit cards — and racked up loads debt. He had a criminal record, too — not his own — which kept him out of the Navy. But ...
Miami-Ft. Lauderdale ABC affiliate WPLG aired a story this morning with frightening implications for smart phone owners in South Florida. How can burglars and information thieves steal your car, break into your home, clean out your bank accounts and take your identity when you leave your smart phone device unattended? The answer lies in the ...
Two Queens men were arrested for trying to use a stolen credit card to buy a flat screen television at Green Acres Mall in Valley Stream on Saturday afternoon, Nassau County police said. Nyhimes Henderson, 27, and David Boynton, 39, of Queens, were buying a television worth $1,303.49 from Sears at 4:30 p.m. when they showed the cashier ...
Fear has always been a big motivator for consumers to change their spending habits. Now banks are beginning to leverage consumer fear of possible identity theft as a way to prop up their shareholder profit. But as the New York Times reports, the strategy may backfire since there’s little evidence that such policies do much ...
Every organization has to make sure that all company and personal data according to the ‘Data Protection Act’ never passes on to the public realm. The major part of any recycling service is the destruction of all the information that is held on devices such as laptop, PC, hard drive, video tape, CD, DVD and ...
When the cloud has your small business covered, you’re more likely to weather a stormy economy successfully and brighten your company’s bottom line. Some small and medium-sized businesses are reducing risk by pursuing a new trend in computing, one that can significantly improve the way smaller companies operate. This trend is called “cloud computing,” and, ...
Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi recently released a comprehensive identity theft prevention kit, specifically for Florida residents. The kit is available via the links below or alternately at the Office of Attorney General website. recordSHRED is pleased to provide this helpful information as a public service for all South Floridians concerned about identity theft. This ...