Would it be fair to say that when the Great Recession hit in 2008, your world was rocked – though not in a good way? If you answered “yes,” you’re certainly not alone; just about everyone in the United States – and, indeed, the entire world – is feeling the pinch. Credit is tight, the [...]
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Identity Theft: The Silent Catastrophe
February 3rd, 2012How to Keep a Lost License from Driving You Crazy
February 1st, 2012You fear you may be facing an enormous hassle because you’ve recently misplaced your driver’s license. You’re certainly not savoring spending an entire afternoon at the motor vehicle department in order to get yourself a new one. But, more than this, you’re worried that someone can use your driver’s license number in order to commit [...]
Deep-Six Fraud in 2012: A ProtectMyID Review for the New Year
January 31st, 2012What sort of year is 2012 shaping up to be as far as fraud and identity theft is concerned? All indications point toward its being as out of hand as 2011 was. Identity theft is one of the world’s fastest growing crimes. This doesn’t come as big news. After all, headlines have been trumpeting this [...]
Finding the Right Identity Theft Protection Service
January 27th, 2012It seems that more frequently than ever these days you read in headlines or on news crawls about some data breach that has exposed thousands, if not millions, of consumers at risk for identity theft. In the period of 2005-2008 some 220 million people’s private information was reported lost or stolen. In 2007 alone, somewhere [...]
Avoiding a 2012 ID Theft Apocalypse: A Review of IDENTITY GUARD for the New Year
January 26th, 2012If you find yourself shopping for identity theft protection, you owe it to yourself to give IDENTITY GUARD® TOTAL PROTECTION® a look. IDENTITY GUARD® TOTAL PROTECTION® offers customers iron-clad protection along with a host of other useful services that allow you to secure your credit. IDENTITY GUARD® TOTAL PROTECTION® also features attractive services for desktop [...]
Anti-Fraud Lang Syne: A TrustedID Review for the New Year
January 23rd, 2012Like 2011, 2012 promises to be another banner year for fraud. Just as last year saw hacks of epic proportions – most notably last April’s Sony PlayStation Network security breach, which placed at risk for identity theft millions of subscribers – this young year has already born witness to a massive breach of its own. [...]
Only a Silly Goose Forgoes ID Theft Protection and Credit Monitoring
January 18th, 2012In the autumn of 1702, the Baron Waldmund Wildstein published his famous treatise on the Bi-color Gans. For six months he toiled in a small room in his large castle on the banks of the Danube. “The Bi-color Gans is one of nature’s greatest mysteries,” he wrote, “and I have set out to solve it.” [...]
Light a Fire Under Fraudsters with Effective ID Theft Protection and Credit Monitoring
January 16th, 2012Whether you follow the new FDA “My Plate” nutrition guide or remain an adherent of that agency’s “Food Pyramid,” it’s safe to say that portions of flame do not appear on either. The government must presume, then, that fire is too nutritionally insignificant to recommend eating. But try telling that to fire eaters, who make [...]
ID Theft Protection and Credit Monitoring Hi-Tech Artillery Against Fraud
January 12th, 2012It doesn’t take a genius to understand that driving military research is the search for the perfect weapon. You would think that this perfect weapon was discovered some decades ago, when Robert Oppenheimer and the rest of the “Manhattan Project” members split the atom – and ignited two Japanese cities, as well as a cold [...]