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Utah pilots first Child Identity Protection program Utah Attorney General & TransUnion The Utah Attorney General's Child Identity Protection (CIP) program is intended to help prevent identity thieves from using the personal identifying information of Utah children in the issuance of credit. CIP provides Utah parents/guardians with a secure process to enroll a child's information with a national credit reporting company (TransUnion) which will take certain proprietary fraud prevention steps. Such information will remain in the High Risk Fraud database until the child's 17th birthday, at which time it will be removed.
Thanks to ID thieves, your child may have more debt than you Network World Recent investigations show that kids, even unborn babies, are hotter targets than adults for ID theft, racking up millions in debt before parents even know about it.
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National crackdown on identity theft Wednesday, February 01, 2012 Salt Lake Tribune The Internal Revenue Service and the Justice Department have announced the results of a massive national crack down on suspected identity theft.
ID theft victim launches nonprofits to help others Tuesday, January 31, 2012 New Mexico Business Weekly He had worked with legislators to push through a law in 2009 that would let victims like him get some kind of symbol on their drivers’ licenses so the next time they got caught up in a routine traffic stop, they wouldn’t wind up in jail on someone else’s rap sheet.
Physician Medical Identity Theft Wednesday, January 18, 2012 Journal of the American Medical Association This realization occurred after patients reported that her name was on their Medicare Summary Notices although they had never seen her.
Identity theft charges involve false tax returns Saturday, January 28, 2012 Tulsa World A Tulsa woman was charged Friday with 40 counts alleging that she stole others' identities and filed false tax returns to obtain more than $55,000 in refunds.
Use Google Alerts as an Identity Theft Watchdog Friday, January 27, 2012 LifeHacker Google Alerts can be a great tool for monitoring any search term including your own name and other personal information. Use Google Alerts to check if a thief is using your info anywhere online.
About www.IdentityTheft.info IdentityTheft.info staff Our staff of identity theft experts strives to present the latest and most relevant identity theft articles, identity theft news, commentary and ID theft videos.
Our staff (under the guidance of Rob Douglas) follows and presents ID theft related legislation, identity theft services, scams, credit card fraud and security breaches / data breaches. We additionally offer ways to protect yourself and your family from becoming victims of identity theft.
We take identity protection seriously, as a theft of identity can result in not only great financial loss and loss of time in order to repair the damage done, but could end in permanent medical damage or death (see our medical identity theft section).
We are proponents of the credit freeze / security freeze option available to consumers at the three major credit bureaus as a way to prevent identity theft. Although the credit freeze is not a total identity theft prevention method it does prevent many types of ID theft and our identity theft experts believe it is the best option available to consumers at this time.
If you are already a victim of ID theft our identity theft experts provide tips on how and where to report identity theft as well as important other steps you should consider taking.
All of the ID theft research and content at www.IdentityTheft.info is written or compiled by identity theft experts for consumption by journalists, lawmakers, and consumers and is edited by Rob Douglas our chief editor and identity theft expert.
