January 25th, 2012 By the AllClearID Team Juan here from the AllClear ID investigation team. We’ve talked about how college students are at a high risk for identity theft, but for-profit schools (think University of Phoenix and Kaplan University) seem to have an unusual amount of student loan fraud. People who have attended for-profit schools have noticed that they [...]
January 11th, 2012 By the AllClearID Team Jamie here, Chief Investigator at AllClear ID. Recently, I had the opportunity to speak at the Jump$tart National Educator Conference in Washington, DC. Jump$tart is a national organization “dedicated to improving the financial literacy of pre-kindergarten through college-age youth by providing advocacy, research, standards, and educational resources.†In the presentation I [...]
January 4th, 2012 By the AllClearID Team Juan here from the AllClear ID investigation team. Consumers who are at risk of losing their homes to foreclosure are being targeted and victimized by foreclosure “rescue†services. These services bill themselves as being able to weed through mortgage contracts and paperwork to look for errors and unscrupulous practices by lenders. According [...]