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Since the publication of my identity theft prevention book, Stolen Lives – Identity Theft Prevention Made Simple, several resource links listed in the book have changed. Since the book is not a dynamic document, but this blog is, I’d like to provide updated links here. If you find other links in Stolen Lives that have become outdated since publication, please use the Contact form above to let me know. If you have good sources of identity theft prevention, please include them with a response below. Click through for the update links that I know about so far…
Posted in Identity Theft Prevention by Identity Theft Speaker John Sileo.
Tags: Do not call, do not email, do not mail, junk mail, Prevention, Protection, Workplace ID Theft
Are you an expert at something?
In the world of professional speaking, you are expected to be an expert in your topic (to be taken seriously and to make a living). So speakers begin calling themselves experts, sometimes before they deserve the title. It’s like giving yourself a nickname – it feels a bit self-congratulatory.
I’m no exception.
Posted in Identity Theft Prevention by Identity Theft Speaker John Sileo.
Tags: Expert, expertise, identity theft expert, Identity Theft Speaker, Workplace ID Theft
If you receive my newsletter, you’ve already seen this article on identity theft during tax season, but I thought I would re-post it here.
Tax time is like Christmas for identity thieves. Our personal information sits out on desks (ours and our tax preparer’s), is mailed improperly, emailed incorrectly and stored unsafely. And to top it all off,
Posted in Identity Theft Prevention by Identity Theft Speaker John Sileo.
Tags: id theft, tax fraud, tax time identity theft, taxes
I just finished speaking to an amazing group of financial advisors at the Lincoln Financial Group Planning Forum. This is a group of people who take the security of their business information, the privacy of their clients and their own personal data safety very seriously. It was an identity theft prevention speech, but specifically geared to the exceptional amount of identity handled by financial planners. These are people who have to proactively protect physical client files, filing cabinets, computers access, wired and wireless networks, trash, mail, hiring policies (to avoid bringing an identity thief into the company), mobile devices, and many other forms of information vulnerability as part of their everyday job. That is a lot of responsibility, and this group handles it beautifully. But I gave them some advice that turned out to be suspect…
Posted in Identity Theft Prevention by Identity Theft Speaker John Sileo.
Tags: computer security, laptop theft, notebook, protect laptop, traveling
“Might I have another lump of coal for the fire, Mr. Scrooge?”
-Bob Cratchit (Dickens’ A Christmas Carol)
What in the world do we have to learn from Ebenezer Scrooge about protecting our identities during the busy holiday season?
Plenty!
Posted in Identity Theft Prevention by Identity Theft Speaker John Sileo.
Tags: holiday, holidays, id theft, Identity Theft Prevention, safety
I just checked out of my hotel room in NYC after delivering an identity theft speech to the most wonderful New Yorkers at the Federal Reserve Bank of NY, and it reminded me of a question I hear constantly as I travel:
Can my identity be stolen off of the room key cards that hotels use?
Posted in Identity Theft Prevention by Identity Theft Speaker John Sileo.
Tags: Hotel Key Cards, Identity Theft Prevention, Identity Theft Speaker, John Sileo
I’ve just visited the fountain of youth. Have you ever had one of those experiences where you meet a person or a group of people that renews your faith in all that’s good in the world? I delivered a speech on identity theft prevention to AARP South Carolina (a chapter of the American Association of Retired Persons – an amazing organization that you should be part of if you are over 50) yesterday morning, and met a group that actually makes me look forward to growing up. Doris, Barb, Leigh Ann, Patrick, Lynda, Bill, Ridge, Charlie, Emily (I could name 50 more)… these are the people that greeted me like I was part of their family and treated me like someone special. They are some of the youngest spirits I’ve ever met. And I learned a great deal from them…
Posted in Identity Theft Prevention by Identity Theft Speaker John Sileo.
Tags: Death, Deceased, id theft, identity theft expert, Identity Theft Prevention
Sometimes I feel like I have no privacy. I didn’t think this had anything to do with identity theft when I first realized it, but it does. On the weekends, my email lures me into my home office to check for new messages. I don’t actually need to pick them up, but I’m driven to, like an addiction to Amaretto Milano cookies – I can’t help myself. I’m not exactly sure what I think I’m going to find in my inbox (maybe the good news of
Posted in Identity Theft Prevention by Identity Theft Speaker John Sileo.
Do I need to add my cell phone number to a Do Not Call list in order to keep telemarketers from contacting me on my mobile phone?
No. But you should add it to the list anyway. Right now, cell phone numbers are not being released to telemarketers, but they might be in the future. For details, visit the Federal Trade Commission’s article entitled The Truth About Cell Phones and the Do Not Call Registry.
That said, today is a good time to re-submit (or submit for the first time) your home phone number, mobile number and fax number to the National Do Not Call Registry. Here’s why:
Posted in Identity Theft Prevention by Identity Theft Speaker John Sileo.
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