Motherhood Moments

JANUARY 11, 2023

Children are especially vulnerable to a new form of identity theft – synthetic – which now makes up 85 percent of cases and means thieves use combinations of real and fake information to take out loans, get credit cards, purchase cars, collect unemployment, and much more. And it’s grown 233 percent over five years.

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Prairie Eco-Thrifter

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

You and I may not think twice about these transactions, but someone trying to steal your identity would. Did you know that identity theft is the fastest growing crime in North America?! According to an inspection done by the US Postal Service in 2004, there were over 10 million cases of identity theft in one year alone.

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Saving Cents With Sense

OCTOBER 22, 2015

Keep the Card at Home. There’s no reason to be walking around with your social security card, in fact, it’s a top way to get your identity stolen. Lost or stolen wallets are a key cause of identity theft—especially when a social security card is found within—and the most consequential as well.

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Prairie Eco-Thrifter

DECEMBER 10, 2013

This makes it easy for cybercriminals to hack into such systems because they know almost all the default settings. Make sure your new passwords have a combination of lower and upper case letters, symbols, and numbers. Encrypt sensitive and private data such as client’s credit card details. Encrypt Data.

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