50 Ways to Protect Your Identity and Your Credit - Steve Weisman

50 Ways to Protect Your Identity and Your Credit

Everything You Need to Know About Identity Theft, Credit Cards, Credit Repair, and Credit Reports

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Buch | Softcover
256 Seiten
2005
Financial Times Prentice Hall (Verlag)
978-0-13-146759-0 (ISBN)
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Features everything you need to know about identity theft, credit cards, credit repair, and credit reports. This book tells you what to watch out for, and how to keep credit disasters from happening to you. It describes how to use the law, technology, and common sense to protect yourself.
Everything You Need to Know About Identity Theft, Credit Cards, Credit Repair, and Credit Reports

"The author substitutes straight talk for legal mumbo-jumbo in 50 Ways to Protect Your Identity and Your Credit. Reading this book is like getting a black belt in consumer self-defense."

–Jim Bohannon, host of The Jim Bohannon Show

"Identity theft is among the fastest-growing problems facing Americans today. This book will help you learn all you need to know to protect your lives, money, and security. Consider it your first stop in your quest for knowledge and guidance to prevent ID theft."

–Robert Powell, Editor of CBS MarketWatch

"As one who has lived through some of the nightmare scenarios discussed by the author,

I believe "Steve's Rules" (Chapter 14) need to be placed in a prominent place so you can see them any time you think you are safe. They may be the new practical commandments for financial survival."

–Doug Stephan, host of the Good Day nationally syndicated radio show

"Detecting and stopping identity thieves is imperative to protecting your finances and financial reputation. Steve Weisman shows you how to protect yourself and what steps to take if you are victimized. This is a must-read for anyone with a bank account and a credit card!"

–Bonnie Bleidt, Boston Stock Exchange Reporter, CBS4 Boston, Host of Early Exchange, WBIX

Don't be a victim! Save your identity, save your credit–and save a fortune!

10,000,000 Americans had their identities stolen last year–don't be the next!

Discover easy steps you can take now to reduce your vulnerability.

Recognize "phishing" and other identity scams–online and off.

Learn what you must do immediately if you've been attacked.

Defend yourself against credit rip-offs, and stop paying more than you have to!

It's all here: simple rules, handy checklists, even easy-to-use form letters!


© Copyright Pearson Education. All rights reserved.

STEVE WEISMAN hosts the nationally syndicated radio show A Touch of Grey, heard on more than 50 stations across America, including New York City's legendary WOR and KRLA Los Angeles. A member of the National Association of Elder Law Attorneys, he has taught at the University of Massachusetts, Curry College, and Boston University, and is an adjunct faculty member at Bentley College. He holds a JD degree from Boston College Law School and is admitted to practice before the United States Supreme Court. Weisman has a legal practice in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He also speaks to groups on legal topics throughout the country. Weisman is legal editor and columnist for Talkers Magazine, and writes for publications ranging from The Boston Globe to US Air Magazine. He has earned a Certificate of Merit from the American Bar Association for excellence in legal journalism. He is the author of A Guide to Elder Planning: Everything You Need to Know to Protect Yourself Legally & Financially (Financial Times, Prentice Hall). © Copyright Pearson Education. All rights reserved.

Introduction.

1. Identity Theft.

2. Making Yourself Less Vulnerable to Identity Theft.

3. Danger on the Computer and What to Do if You Are the Victim of Identity Theft.

4. Your Social Security Number - An Identity Thief's Lucky Number.

5. Criminal Identity Theft, Taxes - And More Arresting Problems.

6. Technology, Business, and Government Fight Identity Theft.

7. Financial Privacy Please: The Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act.

8. Credit Cards.

9. Fine Print.

10. Protection from Credit Discrimination.

11. Credit Reports.

12. Credit Counseling and Credit Repair.

13. Congress Deals with Credit Reports and Identity Theft: The Fair and Accurate Credit Transactions Act.

14. Steve's Rules.

15. Form Letters.

Erscheint lt. Verlag 24.2.2005
Verlagsort Upper Saddle River
Sprache englisch
Maße 228 x 152 mm
Gewicht 349 g
Themenwelt Sachbuch/Ratgeber Beruf / Finanzen / Recht / Wirtschaft Geld / Bank / Börse
ISBN-10 0-13-146759-X / 013146759X
ISBN-13 978-0-13-146759-0 / 9780131467590
Zustand Neuware
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