Good House Keeping...

This is a article that you must read the whole article to believe it!

Read it and then show it and you and them will be blowing away!

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Court: Man can be charged with identity theft in suicide...

MADISON, Wis. - A Wisconsin man accused of driving his boss to suicide can be charged with identity theft for sending e-mails under his name, an appeals court ruled Thursday.

Christopher Baron has admitted hacking into the work e-mail of Mark Fisher, who was director of Jefferson's Emergency Medical Service program...

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Protect Against Medical ID Theft...

(CBS) According to the Federal Trade Commission, an estimated 200,000 people a year are being victimized by a growing crime: medical identity theft.

One of those victims was Anndorie Sachs. Several months ago, she got an alarming phone call: her newborn baby had just tested positive for illegal drugs — but Sachs hasn't given birth in years.

"I was absolutely floored, you would just never imagine in a million years that something could happen like this," she told The Early Show consumer correspondent Susan Koeppen. "As much as I denied it, they just kept insisting that yes, I was the mother of this child, there was nothing I could say to get out of it."

To make matters worse, authorities showed up at her door the next day, called her an unfit mother and threatened to take away her four kids.

"When you know you're innocent and you didn't do anything wrong, it just absolutely — I was in tears, I was a wreck," she said.

It turned out that someone had stolen her driver's license, walked into a hospital, and had a baby and left Sachs with a $10,000 bill and a fight to clear her name.

Chris Dorn, a fraud expert with Ingenix, a company that tracks medical ID theft cases, says victims of medical identity theft also have to worry about medical records being altered with the crook's information substituted for their own.
 

ID thieves try to steal your life and business, too

Laws that have recently come into play include a pair with ominous acronyms — the Fair and Accurate Credit Transactions Act, or F.A.C.T.A., and the better known Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, or HIPAA. Another, the Gramm-Leach-Bliley, better known as the Safeguard Rule, applies to financial institutions.

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What Happened in Vegas...

Clients nationwide are entrusting private financial information to a Tempe anti-identity-theft firm that’s based on a bluff

LifeLock's primary service is nothing you can't do yourself. If you think someone has stolen your identity, you can call one of the three major credit bureaus, TransUnion, Experian or Equifax, and place an electronic red flag, called a fraud alert, on your account.

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RadioShack Corp. dumped "thousands" of customer!

April 02, 2007 (Computerworld) -- RadioShack Corp. dumped "thousands" of customer records behind a store near Corpus Christi, exposing consumers to possible identity theft, the Texas attorney general charged late yesterday.

According to Attorney General Greg Abbott, the Fort Worth-based company violated multiple state statutes, including the Identity Theft Enforcement and Protection Act, a 2005 law that requires businesses to protect and properly dispose of customer personal information.

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