Posted by: Neal OFarrell in: ● September 27, 2011
Last week I counseled yet another victim of identity theft who went to report the crime to police, only to be told by the officer that if she didn’t actually lose any money – because her bank refunded any losses – then she wasn’t really a victim and she shouldn’t be bothering law enforcement. Apart [...]
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Posted by: Neal OFarrell in: ● September 22, 2010
Most identity theft is based around the theft of personal information, and often that information is in documents that we should be protecting – like bank and credit card statements or tax returns. But other documentation, that we don’t often think about, can be just as valuable to thieves and dangerous to us. And that’s [...]
Posted by: Neal OFarrell in: ● July 21, 2010
Welcome to the IDGuardian Podcast. These audio and video columns can be listened and or viewed to in a variety of ways: Through the blog via the media player found in this blogpost Through a manual download by clicking on the “Download” link By subscribing through iTunes This episode features Neal O’Farrell, an expert on [...]
Posted by: ID Guardian in: ● June 14, 2010
We know by now that identity thieves are reaching far beyond credit card shopping sprees. A major risk for homeowners nowadays is mortgage fraud, which has been a huge contributor to this nation’s housing crisis. The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) reported that 67,190 mortgage fraud suspicious activity reports (SARs) were filed in 2009 with [...]
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