by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Sep 9, 2020 | Scam of the day
This is the beginning of a school year unlike any other, but one thing that remains the same is the risk of school age children becoming victims of identity theft. Identity thieves will steal the identity of a child and then run up large debts using the credit of the...
by admin | Aug 5, 2018 | Scam of the day
The hospital at Boys Town, Nebraska recently announced that it had suffered a data breach in May although the data breach was not disclosed until now. Boys Town Nebraska is the national headquarters of Boys Town, which started as an orphanage for boys and became the...
by admin | Jan 2, 2016 | Scam of the day, Site Related
North Carolina became the latest state to enact a law providing for credit freezes for children to protect against child identity theft. Unfortunately, less than half of the states provide this much needed protection of minors from identity theft. This is important...
by admin | Sep 28, 2014 | Scam of the day, Site Related
Last week, Florida became the latest state to enact a law to help combat identity theft of children’s identities. The new law has the clever acronym of KIDS, which stands for the Keeping ID Safe act. Under this law, parents of minors are able to open a file...
