December 28th, 2011 By the AllClear ID Team Chris here with the AllClear ID Investigation team. Identity thieves are placing credit card skimming devices everywhere, but particularly on gas pumps, and as we wrote earlier, on outdoor ATMs. These devices are small and hard for the typical person to detect, but they can be financially lethal. Skimmers are designed [...]
December 22nd, 2011 By the AllClearID Team Jamie here, Chief Investigator at AllClear ID. Child Identity theft can be a devastating experience that affects about 10% of children. This crime often goes undetected for years allowing thieves time to build a complicated web of open accounts and debts that can be difficult to resolve. When child identity theft victims enter [...]
December 15th, 2011 By the AllClearID Team George here from the AllClear ID investigation team. If you’ve reviewed your free annual credit report and something looks off it may not necessarily be identity theft. A very common error at credit bureau agencies is the addition of inaccurate information on a consumer’s credit card, meaning more and more accounts [...]
December 7th, 2011 By the AllClearID Team Vanessa here with AllClear ID. We recently went over how college students can be an easy target for identity theft, but a recent survey of college students in the United Kingdom reveals the scope of this problem.  The survey, conducted by the British Government, asked college students about how they protected their [...]