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Parenting Pointers: Synthetic Identity Theft

Motherhood Moments

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. How can parents protect their kids?

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Limiting the Financial Damage of a Data Breach

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

Millions of customers had their data stolen, including credit and debit information. Even though I haven’t shopped at a Target in years, my partial data was stolen, and I’ll need to be vigilant when it comes to my identity. My credit card information was vulnerable during the PlayStation Network breach of a few years ago.

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Growing up in the 1950?s

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

Ours was smaller (about 700 square feet) – 2 bedrooms (my brother and I shared one and my parents the other), a kitchen and a living room, No basement or garage. On Halloween we did a trick for our treat inside of a neighbors house, without our parents around and got homemade goodies to eat as a treat. Neighbors knew each other.

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How to Freeze Your Credit

Savings Corner

That can protect you from fraudulent credit applications, even if a criminal has key information such as your birthdate and Social Security number. When someone applies for credit using your personal information, a lender or card issuer typically checks your credit before making a decision.

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Carnival of Financial Planning – Money Management Edition #231

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

History repeats and informs in market technologies. It’s modeled much like Michael Pollans Food Rules with many one-page rules that give short but useful tidbits of information. There are so many complex and obscure parts it’s hard to discern what’s going on. ” Financial Planning. We all have skills. Insurance and Risk.

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How Are Billionaires Different Than Millionaires?

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

Alternately you could strive for multi-millionaire status – once you get to Category II wealth status (See What Category Wealth Are You for information on the categories) you pretty much have it made for several generations. Parents of billionaires had a high aptitude for math. 8 Ways to Prevent Identity Theft.