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On Saturday, September 10, LegalShield(SM) was announced as the new operating name of the company before thousands of independent sales associates gathered in the American Airlines Center in Dallas for the 2011 Leadership Summit. We were excited to be there to see the rebranding as it was announced.
Check out the new splash page and electronic brochure at http://mylegalshield.com
We look forward to sharing more about the new vision and enhanced benefits. I’m sure all our members will be receiving updated information soon. Let us know if you have any questions.
Stan Adell | 913.963.5411 | www.adellassociates.com
The IRS has reported that taxpayer identity theft increased 5X between 2008 and 2010 and is getting worse each year. There were 248,357 incidents in 2010, compared to 51,702 in 2008.
So if you filed your tax return, but didn’t get your refund, there is a strong possibility that someone else got your refund with your name and Social Security number.
A TODAY investigation revealed that criminals routinely use a child’s pristine credit record to their advantage and get away with it for years or decades. The issue for parents is this: What can I do to protect my child?
Parents struggling to keep track of their kids’ vaccinations, homework, dance classes and veggie intake have precious little time for other worries, but a serious new threat is demanding their attention: Identity thieves are increasingly targeting children, in some cases stealing their identities even before they are born.
As an investigation by NBC’s Jeff Rossen and TODAY revealed Thursday, criminals routinely use a child’s pristine credit record to their advantage and get away with it for years or decades — even if law enforcement knows exactly where the imposters live. TODAY showed this in dramatic fashion, hunting down two alleged child imposters and capturing their comments on camera.
Rossen’s story on TODAY also features a 9-year-old girl who is in default on utility bills, a teenager with $750,000 in debt, and a 2-year-old with a pile of credit card bills.
“You think this must be a joke, and then you realize, no this is actually incredibly serious,” said Allison, the baby’s mom, who asked that her last name be withheld. “Never in my wildest dreams had I thought to run a credit check on my son. And what parent would run a credit check on their child who’s in diapers, who’s crawling?”
Read the entire story and watch the video.
Then check out our Identity Theft Shield and Identity Theft Safeguard for Minors that provides monitoring, and more importantly, full restoration if you or your child become a victim.
April, 2011 Message to BBB Accredited Businesses
Introducing a valuable new benefit for BBB Accredited Business.
The Better Business Bureau of Greater Kansas City, Inc. has formed a strategic partnership with Adell Associates, representing Pre-Paid Legal Services, Inc. and subsidiaries, to provide you and your employees with Identity theft protections and other potential beneficial services, available to Accredited Businesses.
Adell Associates will be contacting you to set up a short presentation to show how they can help your business and employees. There is no financial obligation to hear about their comprehensive Identity Theft Shield and Legal Service Plans for families and businesses.
After you learn about their program, you may want to have the services presented to your employees as a voluntary benefit at no direct cost to the company.
Please contact our office if you have questions, 816-421-8188 or members@kansascity.bbb.org. You may also contact Adell Associates direct at
913-780-2375 to schedule an appointment or learn more.
Sincerely,
David Buckley
President
Better Business Bureau of Kansas City
We will be conducting a FREE Identity Theft Seminar at the
Olathe Commerce Bank 159th & Mur-Len Branch on March 31st.
Please RSVP if you can come.
CNNMoney.com
Blake Ellis, staff reporter, On Tuesday March 8, 2011, 4:25 pm EST
The government received more than a million consumer complaints last year, with identity theft enraging the most people.
The Federal Trade Commission counted 250,854 complaints about identity theft in 2010, according to a report issued Tuesday. That was 19% of the 1.3 million total complaints the agency received, putting it at the top of the consumer complaint list for the 11th year in a row.
The most common form of identity theft was through fraudulent government documents. Credit card fraud garnered the second highest number of identity theft complaints, followed by phone and utilities fraud. Overall, Florida residents reported the highest per capita rate of identity thefts.
After identity theft, debt collection racked up the second highest number of complaints, making up 11% of overall complaints. Internet services and prizes, sweepstakes and lotteries each accounted for 5% of complaints, followed by shop-at-home and catalog sales, which made up 4%.
Fraud-related complaints accounted for 54% of total complaints, with consumers reporting that they were scammed into paying more than $1.7 billion — or a median of $594 per person — last year.
About 45% of consumers reporting fraud said that transactions were initiated by e-mail; 11% said they were lured through a website.
For the first time, imposter scams — where scammers pose as friends, family, government agencies or companies to trick consumers into sending them money — were also among the top 10 complaints.
Internet auctions, foreign money offers and counterfeit check scams, telephone and mobile services and credit cards rounded off the list of top ten things consumers complained about last year.
Adell Associates is honored to be the featured business during the month of March 2011 at the Commerce Bank Olathe 159th & Mur-Len Branch. Please stop in and visit our display to learn about our comprehensive identity theft and legal services.
We will be conducting a FREE Identity Theft Seminar at the bank on March 31st.
Please RSVP if you can come.
This Feb 3, 2011 ABC News Story is a perfect example of how someone can turn your life upside down. A homeless man was able to steal a man’s identity in 1993 and finally got caught.
During that time the victim spent time in jail for a crime he did not commit and lost his medical benefits. He was wrongly ticketed for driving a purple Camaro too fast in 2001, billed $300,000 by Medicare and almost had his driver’s license revoked for offenses he didn’t commit. Continue reading
Malware is possibly the most common threat to computer information security. It is a term coined to mean “malicious software.” The term covers threats such as viruses, worms, and Trojan Horses. Spam and phishing are also related threats.
The problem with malware—and sometimes spam and phishing—is that it can be exploited by criminals to gain access to or destroy information stored on computers. As a result, personal information can be stolen and, in some cases, used as a basis for identity theft.
These are very serious threats; therefore, it’s important that you know what they are and how to prevent them. Here are some definitions.
