If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed or get new posts via email. Thanks for visiting!One of my favorite blogs is Get Rich Slowly.  J.D. recently did a great post about identity theft.
Unfortunately, the circumstances that prompted the post aren’t the greatest:
Identity theft sucks. Our mail was stolen […]

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A TV station in Denver, CBS4, did a test of three popular Identity Theft Protection companies: LifeLock, TrustedID, and Loudsiren/Debix.
The Test

Three of the station’s employees signed for the services, one for each one
Each employee called up their respective providers and asked what would happen if someone tried to apply for a credit card in their […]

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The array of options for identity theft protection can be quite confusing. Credit monitoring, fraud alerts and credit freezes are 3 tools that are used to fight identity theft. What is the difference between them? Which is better?
Credit Monitoring
Credit monitoring is the most common way to protect against identity theft. Up until […]

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