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Linda Sherry

Director, National Priorities, Consumer Action

http://www.consumer-action.org

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 issues.

Sherry, who moved to Washington, DC, in August 2004 to establish an office for Consumer Action, is responsible for the organization’s national advocacy work and for the research and writing of Consumer Action’s free educational publications and web site content. Her recent projects for Consumer Action include publications on home buying, credit card terms and conditions, bankruptcy, ID theft, Internet privacy, cell phones and investing vs. savings. Sherry is chief surveyor and coordinator of Consumer Action’s popular pricing surveys of rates for credit cards and telephone services. She is the editor of Consumer Action’s newsletter, Consumer Action News.

Sherry has received awards for Consumer Action publications from the National Association of Consumer Agency Administrators (Excellence in Consumer Education, 1996, 2000 and 2003) and U.S. Office of Consumer Affairs (1995 National Consumer Week). Sherry serves as a member of the National Consumers League Fraud Alliance steering committee.

Before joining Consumer Action, Sherry was managing editor of AsianWeek in San Francisco from 1991-1994. Previously she was a reporter at The Almanac newspapers in Menlo Park, CA; The New York Times Long Island Section and The East Hampton Star in East Hampton, NY. She was the founding editor of the Sag Harbor Herald, a weekly newspaper in Long Island, NY.

What are the best resources for dealing with identity theft?

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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Linda Sherry: Hi! I am Linda Sherry from Consumer Action and today, we are going to be talk about some of the best resources for dealing with identity theft.

Speaker: What are the best resources for dealing with identity theft?

Linda Sherry: One of the best resources that consumers have in dealing with identity theft is the Federal Trade Commission or FTC, ID theft clearing house and this is a compendium of great material, but it is also you can call on the phone, you can register yourself as an identity theft victim; you can download a FTC, ID theft affidavit and fill it out and use it to prove your innocence. The information on the site is very clear and easy to read and it is available in English and Spanish.

Another great resource for ID theft is the Privacy Rights Clearing House. Out of San Diego, this is the national organization that offers just so, much a great wealth of advice on all kinds of ID theft. There is also a couple of Law Enforcement Agencies that you need to know that have jurisdiction over law enforcement and that's the FBI and the US Postal Inspector.

What are the best resources for dealing with identity theft?