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AndyIDT

  1. Identity theft: Kids’ new nightmare | The Columbus Dispatch dispatch.com/content/storie… - Unpaid utility bills undiscovered until 18.
  2. 3 things to consider, does your IDT protection give you legal access, credit monitoring & most important FULL ID restoration.
  3. ID Theft on the rise - concurringopinions.com/archives/2012/… - are you protected??
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  5. FACEBOOK USERS: Remove the year of your birth and city you were born from your profile. ID Thieves look for this information.
  6. U have antivirus 4 ur computer, why not IDT protection for u and ur family? Only 1 company offers licensed investigators for ID restoration
  7. Dumpster diving still #1 way 2 steal ur ID - Dumpster diver allegedly stole IDs by reassembling paper shreds latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2012/05/… via @lanow
  8. Email spoofing more difficult to ID. Call your institution and verify instead of clicking on a link that is phishing for your personal info.
  9. Tax Refund & IDT by employees forbes.com/sites/janetnov… Employers can decrease this problem by offering an employee benefit
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  11. Again, ID thieves tempting pple to get more money back from the IRS. DO NOT follow link in the email to provide info - xfin.tv/xTjP7S
  12. Medical IDT strikes again j.mp/sbqIaH
  13. Child Identity Theft growing bit.ly/sesUsS many don't realize they're victims till applying for college loans
  14. Losing ur wallet with med ins. Card is like giving an ID thief a 3-5 million $ credit card to commit Medical ID Theft
  15. Depending on the study: 140,000 - 400,000 children per year become victims of IDT.
  16. Smishing = ID Theives using text messages to phish information from users. Caution for text msgs from those you don't know.
  17. According to idtheftcenter.org, there have been 329 Data Breaches w over 22million REPORTED exposures in 2011 so far.