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Linda Sherry: Hi! I am Linda Sherry. I am Director of National Priorities for Consumer Action. We are a national non-profit consumer education and advocacy organization and we are very well known for our multilingual consumer education, fact sheets, pamphlets etc. Today, I am going to be talking about identity theft, a fast growing crime and how you can prevent becoming a victim of identity theft and also how somethings you can do if you are a victim.

Speaker: What is identity theft?

Linda Sherry: Identity theft is a crime in which someone takes your personal information and uses it for fraudulent purposes.

Expert: Linda Sherry

Director, National Priorities

http://www.consumer-action.org

Email: editor@consumer-action.org

Linda Sherry, Consumer Action’s director of national priorities and one of the organization’s chief spokespersons, joined the San Francisco-based national consumer education and advocacy group in 1994 from a background as a weekly newspaper reporter.Consumer Action (www.consumer-action.org), founded in 1971, has a national reputation for free multilingual consumer education on personal finance More »

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In this video, Linda Sherry details the best ways to prevent identity theft and what you can do if you think your identity has been stolen.

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Tags: Id, Theft, Identity, Fraud, Internet, Abuse, Stolen, Scam  

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