50 Ways to Protect Your Identity and Your Credit by Steve Weisman

50 Ways to Protect Your Identity and Your Credit by Steve Weisman

Features everything you need to know about identity theft, credit cards, credit repair, and credit reports. This book tells you what to watch out for, and how to keep credit disasters from happening to you. It describes how to use the law, technology, and common sense to protect yourself.

From Kirkus Reports, February 10, 2005 Vol2/Issue 1

50 Ways to Protect Your Identity and Your Credit: Everything You Need to Know About Identity Theft, Credit Cards, Credit Repair, and Credit Reports
By: Steve Weisman
Publisher: Prentice Hall
Pub Date: January 2005

Identity theft and bad credit–two of the most feared byproducts of the information age, and subjects about which few really understand. Weisman offers reassurance in the form of 50 steps that will guard against both of these modern perils. The points of vulnerability are familiar by now: social-security number, credit cards, computer spyware. Weisman addresses each of these weak spots in turn, and lays out the measures required for effective defense. Even if the suggestions arrive too late to prevent identity theft, he still offers advice on what to do next–get an ID Theft Affidavit from the FTC, file a report with the police, and so on. For those more interested in protecting financial status, Weisman describes techniques for using credit cards wisely, as well as researching all the inherent fine print. He goes on to explain credit counseling and credit repair, rendered fully in clear terminology. Clever headlines and highlighted tips will keep you moving through each one of Weisman’s helpful hints

STEVE WEISMAN hosts the nationally syndicated radio show A Touch of Grey, heard on more than 50 stations across America, including New York City's legendary WOR and KRLA Los Angeles. A member of the National Association of Elder Law Attorneys, he has taught at the University of Massachusetts, Curry College, and Boston University, and is an adjunct faculty member at Bentley College. He holds a JD degree from Boston College Law School and is admitted to practice before the United States Supreme Court. Weisman has a legal practice in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He also speaks to groups on legal topics throughout the country. Weisman is legal editor and columnist for Talkers Magazine, and writes for publications ranging from The Boston Globe to US Air Magazine. He has earned a Certificate of Merit from the American Bar Association for excellence in legal journalism. He is the author of A Guide to Elder Planning: Everything You Need to Know to Protect Yourself Legally & Financially (Financial Times, Prentice Hall).

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SKU	Unavailable
ISBN 13	9780131467590
ISBN 10	013146759X
Title	50 Ways to Protect Your Identity and Your Credit
Author	Steve Weisman
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Pearson Education (US)
Year published	2005-02-24
Number of pages	256
Cover note	Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.