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Would You Like Ways To Prevent And Combat Identity Theft?

The aim of this site is to help you find ways to avoid, prevent and combat identity theft, so if you answered 'yes' to the above question, you are in the right place!

Welcome!

As the world becomes more connected and confidential, our personal information becomes available in ever more places and to ever more people. Whether these people are based in a financial institution, local or national company, government office or just friends and neighbours, we are all at risk of some sort of ID crime or fraud.

Rates of these types of crimes are climbing and victims are suffering both financially and emotionally. These are certainly not victimless crimes, but it seems that the perpetrators are often invisible to us and to the law.

It is widely believed that identity theft is now the fastest growing crime on earth!

There are ways to prevent identity theft which are often just simple steps. This site will show you how to do the easy and more complicated jobs to secure your identity.

As the site grows, there will also be information on what to do if you have become the victim and need to take urgent action to prevent the problem from escalating.

This site was started because the author was a victim of crime. It was not actually identity theft, but when reported to the police, everyone seemed to compare it to identity theft. At that time, in about 2004, I had never heard of it, but as I researched a little, I found that my misfortunes were really very similar to those of identity theft victims.

So I started this website with the aim of passing on a little knowledge and experience and, hopefully, preventing a few people from falling victim to these crimes. I really hope that there is something on these pages that is useful to you.

Please just take the warnings on these pages seriously. Becoming a victim of many of the crimes discussed on these pages is a very expensive, time consuming and flat-out horrible experience. Don't let it be you.

On that note, I wish you good fortune and hope that this site will become your one-stop resource for information about the ways to prevent identity theft.

Identity Theft Book Reviews
As the numbers of publications grow, we feel it useful to offer some Identity Theft Book Reviews and help sort the good from the bad.

What Is Credit Card Fraud?
What is credit card fraud? We look at how credit card fraud operates and what you can do to prevent it happening to you.

Credit Report - Use Your Credit Report To Prevent Identity Theft
Discover why your credit report is so important to you and to an identity thief and why you should guard your information carefully.

Identity Theft Definition
There are many identity theft definition s simply because there are many types of this crime. To understand them better and protect yourself, we describe them in great detail...

Criminal Identity Theft And Your Personal Security
Understanding how deeply criminal identity theft actually is vital to self-protection. Identity theft is not a victimless crime as this page discusses.

How To Combat Identity Theft
This blog feed is where we announce new pages to the site that help you discover ways to be less appealing to a fraudster.

UK Identity Theft News
Discover what is going on with this updated section of UK Identity Theft News items

US Identity Theft News
Read about the latest developments in this US identity theft news section of the site.

Online Identity Theft
This series of pages look at the problems we all face about online identity theft as our information is shared increasingly between networks and databases.

Phishing Identity Theft
The use of phishing for identity theft has become incredibly common with vast numbers of spam like emails being sent every day, looking for a victim. We explore avoidance techniques...

Preventing Identity Theft
Just how might you go about preventing identity theft? It can be such a complicated crime that most individuals would need professional assistance...

Identity Theft Statistics
Worldwide, the identity theft statistics are quite shocking. The amounts being stolen or obtained fraudulently are astounding. The following pages investigate the main countries to suffer this plague.

Top Identity Theft Prevention Tips from Combat-Identity-Theft.com
Read some top identity theft prevention tips and how you can apply them to make ID fraudsters pass you by as a target.

Identity Theft Websites
The world of identity theft prevention takes on many forms and as such there are many identity theft websites that deal with information dissemination and various aspects of this issue. We recommend..

Your Identity Theft Stories
Tell us your identity theft stories and help alert others to the potential dangers of identity theft.

Use This Form To Contact Us
This page enables you to contact us.

Legal Notice
Please read this Legal Notice as it explains details of the use of this website.