Resources for “Goodbye Identity Theft”

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Video summaries

The following videos are very high-level summaries of the course information which you can use to help educate your family (feel free to share course content or access with people in your immediate family). They are very short to encourage people to watch them without becoming overwhelmed.

The mini-guide/overview of the ID Theft issue. If you want to highest level (but also quickest) summary of the issue, this is it.
What are fraud alerts, what do they really do, and why they don't work.
Monitoring, where credit companies will charge you money for what should be a free service.
Insurance plans with their various other "services" tacked on to sound legit are more marketing than effective.
The most effective and powerful defense against Credit ID Theft that there is, but that you probably haven't even heard of.
If you change how you think of privacy and start limiting the spread of your data, your risks of ID Theft and other similar problems naturally goes down.
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Too Late!

If you've already become a victim, here is a list of things you should do.

Solving ID Theft

Lock your credit reports with a Credit Freeze to prevent credit-based ID theft (90% of ID theft risk).
Learn to protect your information to prevent not only ID theft, but many other kinds of problems (the rest of ID theft risk).

Save Time and Money

cancel credit-monitoring services.
Cancel id-theft-insurance

Who is Responsible?

Sometimes you just have to wonder why it's so easy to steal identities in the first place.

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The Identity Theft Victim's Mini-Guide to Recovery

If you've already experienced ID theft, here are some tips of what to do next.

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Credit Freeze

Setting a credit report freeze is the fastest and most effective way to actually block and reduce your risk of ID Theft. And it's free.

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Out and About Defense

The best defense against non-credit ID Theft and a variety of other risks is to adopt a mindset of protection: Data Defense. Learn how to protect your information with simple and sometimes free countermeasures all based on a simple philosophy that the less people who have your information, the safer you are.

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