The United States Embassy in Port au Prince, Haiti is warning that there is a new advance fee fraud scheme targeting Haitians and Haitian Americans. Haitians, and Americans who are sponsoring their Haitian relatives, are being asked to pay fees up front in exchange for a guarantee that they can bring up to five of [...]

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A client just called me to inform me that she has been the victim of frozen turkey identity theft. A major grocery chain offers a “free” turkey to anyone who has purchased a certain amount of groceries the weeks before Thanksgiving through the use of a courtesy card account number that keeps track of the [...]

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I recently read a post that suggested identity theft insurance was useless because credit card companies limit the amount of liability for stolen credit cards to a limit of $50. It is true that many issues relating to credit card fraud are resolvable in a straightforward manner, however there are cases when identity theft can [...]

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