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Fraud alerts don't stop creditors from getting the credit record or credit score. The only type of fraud alert available to consumers before they become victims of identity theft only lasts 90 days, and it doesn't even require the creditor to contact the consumer.

Gail Hillebrand

This bill ensures that consumers know when their personal information has been lost or stolen, so they can then take reasonable steps to prevent becoming victims of identity theft. Such steps include monitoring their credit files more closely, placing an initial fraud alert on their credit file, and placing a security freeze on their credit file if they live in a state that allows it.

Susanna Montezemolo

If you've got your house, got your car, got your two credit cards and you know there's no other credit that you'll be getting in the near future and you're very, very, very concerned about identity theft, take advantage of the fraud alert,

Without knowing who has this crucial data or how it's being used, these consumers are at serious risk to credit card fraud or all-out identity theft, which can dramatically raise risks of a variety of financial and personal hardships.

Recent reports show ID theft topped the FTC list of fraud complaints again in 2005, indicating both heightened incidence and awareness of the crime. While awareness is an important first step for consumers, education is critical to preventing identity theft. This underscores the importance of experts like Lance in raising the visibility of best practices and emerging fraud tactics both on and offline, offering credible resources useful in protecting against the damage identity theft begets.

Sure, if you want your credit to be absolutely convenient, you would not select a credit freeze. But if you are a victim of identity theft, you would be happy to have that available to you. Ultimately, it is the only thing that will really stop identity theft.

That is probably the number one question we get, after 'What is this?' There's such an increase in identity theft and fraud. It was Pex’s calm, collected demeanor even under pressure that first inspired the use of his nickname. Pay By Touch is a more secure way to pay than by using cash, check or a credit card.

We originally launched Triple Alert in December 2004 through select channels and are now offering the product more conveniently through its own unique Web site. Consumers are becoming more aware of the importance of monitoring all three of their credit reports and we want to help them become more knowledgeable about their credit while stopping possible identity theft in its tracks by providing the most affordable three-bureau credit monitoring product on the market today.

If a consumer is paying late, or not making credit card payments, they know that before it hits a credit report. The only thing this might be a safeguard against is some kind of fraud -- and my understanding is that the credit reporting agencies have safeguards.

[Indeed, consumer financial fraud has been around as long as checking accounts and credit cards, and banks already do plenty to stop fraud. But e-commerce has opened virgin criminal frontiers.] In the past, everything was much more traceable, ... Now you can open 10,000 (bogus) accounts in the time it used to take to open one, all in a faceless Internet.

We would never use the £503m figure for pure identity fraud. We would put the figure at £36.9m. The Home Office included the figures for all card fraud. We define identity theft differently.

When a family member dies, call the credit bureaus and ask for deceased alert or fraud alert.

They might also give you your credit score. They'll give you free copies of your credit report every year, and they also offer insurance against identity theft.

Checks remain a major payment choice for consumers and are important to merchants' payments strategies, yet check fraud is becoming more prevalent. In today's high-fraud environment, distributed databases with data that is a day old doesn't reduce fraud enough. With Live Verify, larger merchants can continue to give consumers the choice to write checks while receiving a significantly increased level of protection from check fraud as compared to distributed databases.

Your best defense is going to be a security freeze. A freeze prevents access to your credit report to new creditors. This closes a loophole that identity thieves have exploited, since most businesses will not issue new credit or loans to people without first reviewing their credit reports.

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