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kb9tbq
07-11-2003, 07:53 PM
Provided by Kristy:

www.idtheftcenter.org/alerts.shtml

Welcome to the Identity Theft Resource Center, a national nonprofit organization that focuses exclusively on identity theft. ITRC was founded in December 1999...
07-11-2003, 08:49 PM
Here are some more useful links related to identity theft an protecting your credit profile.

The U.S. government's central website for information about identity theft.
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http://www.consumer.gov/idtheft/

Make Your Identity Useless To Thieves
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http://www.forbes.com/personalfinance/strategies/2003/06/12/cx_ds_0612simons.html?session=e1ekD6kkEsg5I5V0GcOC wk8V64

Setting Up A Credit Profile Alert
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http://www.forbes.com/2003/06/12/cx_ds_0612simons2.html
nativechild48
08-30-2003, 01:20 PM
What about these so-called CA' buyers of SOL debts :x " like camco etc. they get hard copies of people's credit report and they don't have permissible purpose in my view. I read an article I can't find it right now where a CA had some one steal a debtors info and ran up a lot of debt in that persons name. XtypeX
kb9tbq
08-30-2003, 02:17 PM
Yes, there are unfortunate cases like this, the best you can hope is that when their internal departments discover such problems. That they have a system in place to notify all customers affected by the breach.

Experian recently had a press release of one such case, if you check out their web site, and they posted for a particular group to contact them that may have been involved.

The only thing you can do, when you are made aware is take percautions to activate fraud alert, and take all nessasary steps to insure you are covered in the event that something does happen! People can do this, and correctly counter such attacks, I do know this for a fact.
kb9tbq
09-03-2003, 02:57 PM
New information compliments of calawyer:

FTC Releases Survey of Identity Theft in U.S. 27.3 Million Victims in Past 5 Years, Billions in Losses for Businesses and Consumers

http://www.ftc.gov/opa/2003/09/idtheft.htm

And have another site for ID Theft Victims to check out:

Your National Resource for Identity Theft

http://www.consumer.gov/idtheft/