Archive for the 'National Protect Your Identity Week' Category

 Unknown Knocker Annoys N.C. Neighbors

In North Carolina some whack job is knocking on doors of women and running. Oddly, all have one thing in common, they are widows. The knocker hasn’t hurt anyone but he is certainly harassing them.
As kids we did similar things to annoy. Kids will be kids, but today is much different. Behavior such as this [...]



 RATs Are Committing Identity Theft Via Webcams

A webcam is certainly one way the bad guy can get intelligence about you. They can use it to spy on you. They can listen into everything you say all day. They know when you are home or not, whether or not you have an alarm, they watch you. But in my opinion, the real [...]



 NFCC and CBBB Hosted “Protect Your Identity Week,” Attracted Thousands November 13, 2009

Silver Spring, MD – Recognizing the need for continued education around identity theft prevention, the National Foundation for Credit Counseling (NFCC) and the Council of Better Business Bureaus (CBBB) jointly hosted National Protect Your Identity Week (PYIW) from October 17-24.
During that one week

95 NFCC Member Agencies and BBBs hosted events
150 events were held nationwide
Events were [...]



 Identity Theft Myths Part 2of3 During PYIW

Identity Theft Expert Robert Siciliano
The National Foundation for Credit Counseling, which sponsors Protect Your Identity Week, has compiled a number of identity theft myths. To support their efforts, the Santa Fe Group Vendor Council Awareness and Education Subcommittee has helped to clarify some common misinformation with regards to this increasingly common crime. We’ve already discussed [...]



 Join Us for National Protect Your Identity Week October 17-24

Welcome to the Identity Theft Protection Blog and the 2009 National Protect Your Identity Week. We are happy you are here, and frankly, wish you weren’t. It’s unfortunate that we even have a term “identity theft” and have to deal with such a heinous crime. But in order to solve this massive problem, it is [...]