Identity Theft: Overview

SPECIAL PROGRAM: PREVENT IDENTITY THEFT

Sue Katz, certified personal financial counselor and educator with American Consumer Credit Counseling, provided a workshop on identity theft in January 2021.

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Protecting Your Internet Identity illustrates the depth and importance of a person's online persona and reputation, and provides strategies for building the best possible online identity. This updated edition addresses the newest ways that people live their lives online, the pressing legal changes that you need to know, and cutting edge technical developments and new ways to protect your identity and reputation.

Scam Me If You Can

Former con artist Frank Abagnale's new book is about the very latest tricks that today's scammers, hackers, and con-artists use to steal your money and personal information.

Swiped

Increasingly, identity theft is a fact of life. We might once have hoped to protect ourselves from hackers with airtight passwords and aggressive spam folders, and those are good ideas as far as they go. But the truth is, there are people out there -- a lot of them -- who treat stealing your identity as a full-time job.