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Host: What is the different between a fraud alert and a credit freeze?
Linda Sherry: A credit freeze is much different than a fraud alert and that it's a much more stringent measure of protection. It really means that no one can open up credit in your name, not even you, until you provide a special PIN or password that you have arranged for in advance.
Expert: Linda Sherry
Director, National Priorities
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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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