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Tax Identity Theft is a growing problem. The General Accountability Office (GAO) reported that in 2013 the IRS paid out approximately $5.8 billion to thieves. They admit that the real number may be much higher because they are not sure how much theft goes undetected. The GAO is also reporting that they expect the fraudulent losses to continue to climb due to the way that information is received and processed by the IRS. One estimate is as high as $21 billion per year. The losses are staggering and they affect all of us directly or indirectly....
I have been working professionally with identity theft for over 10 years now. Over the last 10 years I have learned that early detection is vital to our livelihood, our personal freedom, our finances and even our very lives. The purpose of this article is to show that there is an early detection system available to all of us and solution for solving identity theft problems we don’t even know about. The stories you are about to read are true. The names of the victims have been changed to save them embarrassment and to protect their privacy. The...
Your medical identity is your most complete and most valuable identity. Your medical identity has far more uses than any other identity and that makes your medical identity worth more money to a thief, than a credit card. A single medical identity is like a credit card with a $Million credit limit. Medical identity has become the thieves ID of choice! Medical identity theft can cost you literally everything. When you create your “medical” identity, your doctor or hospital will ask for specific information from you. That information will usu...
What is identity theft? I have been working professionally with identity theft for over 10 years now. I believed, like most people do today, that identity theft means that a thief is using a victim’s credit for illicit activity. I learned that credit was only about 17% of all identity theft.So I decided to write this series of articles to educate the public on this very important topic. Consider this: we insure our cars, our homes, our health, our lives and even our income. So it just makes sense to insure our identity which is really an u...
