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Preventing Identity Theft For Dummies

Preventing Identity Theft For Dummies


By Michael J. Arata, Jr.

ISBN: 978-0-7645-7336-1
Format: Paper
Pages: 206 Pages
Pub. Date: July 2004

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  • Twenty-seven million Americans have been victims of identity theft in the last five years and the total cost of identity theft approaches $48 billion per year (total costs to businesses are $43 billion and the direct cost to consumers is $5 billion)
  • These staggering statistics have prompted security consultant Michael Arata to provide readers with the resources they need to guard themselves against identity theft
  • In this valuable book, Arata offers easy-to-follow, straightforward advice on understanding identity theft, minimizing risk, maintaining vigilance, choosing who to share personal information with, selecting hard-to-guess PINs, determining victimization, reviewing a credit report, charting a course of action, resolving credit problems, reclaiming good credit, and much more
  • Explains how to recover successfully if identity theft does occur
  • Author Michael Arata, CISSP, CPP, CFE, ACLM, is a veteran of the security industry with more than fifteen years of experience
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