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It’s the perfect evening.  The children are at the babysitter and you and your wife are just returning from a Friday evening out.  When you look in your Read view mirror and get that sinking feeling your evening is about to be wrecked.   You don’t know why the police would be stopping you and you [...]

Are You Doing Enough To Protect Your Identity? You’ve done everything you’re supposed to do – document shredding, password changing and all the privacy stuff on Facebook – but even after all of that, you still know your chances are good that one day you’ll become a victim of America’s fastest growing crime: Identity theft. [...]

More than 1.4 million people have been victimized by medical identity theft.  Victims pay about $20,000 each to resolve their cases, and more than half say they had to pay for medical care they didn’t recieve in order to restore health coverage.  Nearly half of victims also lost health coverage due to fraud, and nearly [...]

Sharp Rise In Identity Theft According To Study…                                                   The alarming increases in every area of identity theft,includuding medical ID theft, is taking a huge toll on Americans and the worldwide population. The impact of identity theft is not only causing crisis financially, but now is often life threatening.  An overwhelming majority of healthcare providers—96 percent—admit that they have [...]

                                            Even in small townAmericana people are not safe from the reach of identity thieves. How well do you know your neighvor or the clerk at the grocery store?    Karina Karla Martinez, 36, of Rexburg, was arrested on a charge of forgery and other charges pending, Rexburg police said Thursday.  The department saysMartinezpassed fraudulent [...]

Child identity theft continues to increase at an alarming rate. Each day young people are discovering they have also become a victom of ID theft. Reported by: Katheri When Axton Betz applied for an apartment – rental and utility companies checked her credit, and she got some shocking news. The college student, who had never [...]