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Today, the Identity Theft Resource Center®, a nationally recognized nonprofit organization established to prevent and reduce ...

Identity thieves count on you ignoring small clues like a $4 charge or a missing bill. Spot these six quiet signs before ...

The Internal Revenue Service is restructuring the framework of its Security Summit public-private partnership to fend off tax ...

Natalie Campisi is a senior journalist who covers personal finance, balancing timely news with in-depth enterprise reporting. Her mission is to make complex financial issues clear and accessible for ...

Employment identity theft is when someone steals your personal information, such as your Social Security number (SSN), to secure a job or collect wages. “Employment identity theft is more strategic ...

There’s no better way to ask how someone’s identity can be stolen than by asking an identity thief herself. So that’s exactly what Doug Shadel, a former fraud investigator and current Senior State ...

Ed Landing, a retired state geologist and a victim of identity theft, looks over documents he's put together as he tries to get back his stolen IRS federal tax return refund (Photo by John Carl ...

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A Bradley man was sentenced for bank fraud conspiracy and aggravated identity theft.