Hudson Valley walkway over the hudson Marathon (Green Race)

Continued from last week, this post provides part two of our two part series on red flags to help detect ID theft. Review the following to see if you may be a victim and not know it yet; if so, swift action will limit the damage: Your mail is missing. If you don’t receive your…

In the midst of the Sony hack, this seems like a good time to review “Cyber safety”. It’s a realm that impacts businesses and individuals on small and large scale. Beyond embarrassing and expensive, Sony has shown us the mushroom cloud that potentially hovers over each instance. A joint effort is necessary. The following blog…

Here’s another scam to be mindful of and share with you family and friends. Criminals gather publicly available data on Facebook, Twitter and other social media sites. Then, they locate a vulnerable relative — generally a grandparent — and call them pretending to be a grandchild travelling abroad and in trouble. A typical “grandparent scam”…

This week we turn again to the “IC3” Internet Crime Complaint Center established as a partnership between the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the National White Collar Crime Center (NW3C) to receive Internet related criminal complaints and to further research, develop, and refer the criminal complaints to federal, state, local, or international law enforcement…

Regular readers of the HV Shred blog know we consider the Identity Theft Resource Center a valuable source of helpful information regarding best practices to avoid identity theft.   In the latest installment, we borrow from their recent “myth vs. fact” post.    Myth: “No one would want my identity because my credit is terrible.” Fact:…