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I have decided to do the majority of my Christmas shopping online this year. In fact, even though I like bargains, I am going to forgoe going to any stores on Black Friday. I might, however, take a peak or two at Amazon’s Black Friday page and see what I can find for my family and friends. I would like to have all of my shopping wrapped up (pun intended) by the first week of December. Across the board, I think that I will spend a little less this Christmas than in the past. One positive th

The Vcard is a good product to sell to customers who need to use a credit card online. It is a Visa backed virtual debit card. Your customer chooses how much to load, up to $1,000. This is safer for them to use for online purchases than a credit card. If the number is stolen the amount taken is capped by the limit on the card whereas a stolen credit card can be maxed out to the full credit limit and even beyond. We are finding good business selling the Vcard by pitching the security message.

The British government began its identity card program for foreign nationals Tuesday — six years after heated debate over whether the costly plan is an effective tool against terrorism, identity theft and welfare fraud.

SEATTLE– A laptop is stolen and now thousands of Starbucks employees are at risk for identity theft. The personal information of nearly 100,000 workers is at risk. Officials say someone stole a company laptop containing the names, addresses and social security numbers of 97,000 employees. It happened in October, but so far, there are no reports the information has been misused. …

Identity theft and credit-card fraud are opposite side of the same coin, and both are high-growth industries of global scope. This particular post will deal in a broad-brush way with these interconnected topics, and how to handle the fa