Title: Preventing identity theft for dummies
Description: 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
Subjects: Business, Finance, Identity theft, Nonfiction, Prevention, Fraud, prevention
Places: United States