Beth Givens
Beth Givens
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Ultimately, you cannot prevent identity theft from happening to you, ... You can only reduce your chances.
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We're seeing almost as much interest and concerns in background checks as we were seeing in identity theft about a decade ago.
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The most common complaint of identity theft victims is they have to take time off work, ... I can't tell you how many people have called and said, 'I had to take a week off work.'
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I think it's probably going to be as big of an issue as identity theft has been for the past decade. We hear from people almost daily who are having problems with their background checks.
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There's not anything being done here that a consumer can't do themselves, ... We encourage consumers to check their credit reports themselves.
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If they answer yes, then ask, 'How are you making sure that my information is being protected?' If you don't like the answer, take your business to another financial institution.
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Some criminals have learned that impersonating the deceased is a successful way to commit identity theft.
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With so many uses made of credit report these days, it's vitally important that consumers regularly check them.
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This type of data should not have been on someone's laptop.
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Yes, you'll probably get that money back once they've done the investigation, but if the investigation takes two weeks or two months, here you are without money in your checking account.
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We really don?t have anything to compare it to. Victims are protected by federal law from having to pay fraudulent charges, so the loss is primarily of time.
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It's the Social Security numbers that give fraudsters the ability to impersonate that person.
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Consumers need to know how affected they really are.
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That individual could post inflammatory things about you after you've broken up.