Almost everyone I know has lost a wallet at some time. With all the information I carry in my wallet, it would be easy for someone who came across it to steal my identity. Do you know how to prevent identity theft? What would you do if you lost your wallet? Click on the above link to read this story and get some ideas on steps you can tak

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Do you have the dealership name on your vehicle anywhere? No? Score one for you!

Sabrina from Sabrina's Money Matters gives a kind of scary example of what can happen if the name of your dealer is on your car.

Find out how easy it is for identity thieves to track down vital information and use it to wreck your life.

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Everyone should be on the look out for these forms of identity theft! While phishing scams, Nigerian letters, and foreign lotteries are getting all the press and attention, many people are quietly getting ripped off by these lesser known forms of identity theft and fraud. Everyone should be aware of the different ways that theives are tryin

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When you first download and install these programs, many of you select your My Documents folder to share out. Why is that you might ask. Because that is where you keep everything else on your computer.

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Identity theft is America's #1 fastest-growing crime, and this video will show you one reason why - people make it easy for identity thieves to steal their identity. Watch as five minutes after taking a credit card from a wallet left in a car, the thief walks into the Target store in the same parking lot and goes on a shopping spree. Ident

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A woman, whom I respect and admire, called to ask me to erase her email from my address book. She feared that sharing her email address would make her vulnerable to spam and identity theft. I suspect that she feared my blog would somehow contaminate her email address.

Bloggers are told that they should encourage non-geeks to subscribe t

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The last thing you need right now is to find out that your identity has been stolen, and the person that has stolen it has taken out a huge loan in your name. This leaves you responsible not only for finding out who stole your identity and preventin

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Raelyn Campbell is suing Best Buy over a lost laptop which had been presented for repairs at one of their stores. She is suing for a total of $54M which seems high, but considering the possibility of identity theft, not as frivolous or absurd as people may first think. In this post, I give my opinions on the lawsuit and custome

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You know you've wondered if there was a chance that you REALLY did win $2 Million from some unheard of lottery. Maybe that kind gentlemen who needs help investing a $100,000 inheritance is on the up and up.

Sorry, don't buy your yacht just yet. No matter how much you wish it, you'd don't have a rich uncle that you

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Is your online banking password still a secret?  Who has your credit card number or your PayPal account creditials.  Are you sure?  You will be surprised and maybe a little concerned to learn that your information may already be for sale on the Internet. 

This post gives an over

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