Identity theft still seems to be a growing problem in the country. For the 12th year in a row, identity theft topped the list of consumer complaints that the Federal Trades Commission received in 2011, showing that people still aren’t being proactive about protecting their identity.

Of the 1.8 million complaints the the FTC received, 15% of them were about identity theft. The complaints included government document-related identity theft, which accounted for 27% of the complains and rose 11% from last year, followed by credit card fraud cases (14%), as well as phone or utilities fraud and bank fraud. The most cases were concentrated in Florida, followed by Georgia and California. About 70% of those filing complaints reported the theft to local authorities, a good first step in recovering from identity theft.

If you want to do more to protect yourself when it comes to identity theft, the first step is to find an identity theft monitoring service that you feel comfortable with.

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Property owners rebuilding or making repairs to their flood-damage properties have access to a number of resources – including financial — that can help them reduce, or prevent, future disaster loss.

Four Options Covered

Property owners who suffered flood damage can file a claim for ICC assistance in two instances:

Several other websites describe options that can be taken to mitigate future loss:

FEMA’s mission is to support our citizens and first responders to ensure that as a nation we work together to build, sustain, and improve our capability to prepare for, protect against, respond to, recover from, and mitigate all hazards.

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Needing access to a quick loan to meet your needs is not a rare thing these days considering the condition of the economy. People are being laid off of work, taking pay cuts, paying more for the products and services that were once affordable and more. Not to mention, they are still required to keep their bills in tack.

Consumers always seem to need money for something and nobody ever seems to make enough. Because of this, most of the economy has relied on the services of companies that freely offer a

quick loan to meet their financial needs. They even make the process completely simple for you so there is no downtime and you can take care of things immediately.

This is what draws people to come back. Being able to obtain a quick loan to meet your financial obligations is probably one of the easiest ways to get money these days. So many people wish they could get a quick loan for financial purposes every now and then. Full Post…

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Christy here with the AllClear Investigation Team. We’ve talked before about how job seekers are targeted with work from home scams, but now hopeful applicants have one more thing to worry about. Identity thieves are now gathering and harvesting information from the resumes of job seekers. Whether by gathering personal information or responding to the resumes and pretending to be a recruiter, it is a growing issue in the area of identity theft. One hotspot for this type of theft are public job posting websites. People looking for work just dont realize how susceptible they are, says Heather Galler who has been CEO of an online job site called JobKite.com. Having your resume online these days is like the yellow pages for the entire world.

This type of identity theft has grown in recent years due to the continuing trend towards a digital society, economic trouble, and the vulnerability of people in the position of looking for a job. We

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