Identity Theft: When bad things happen to your good name
by Cynthia Bercowetz
Bloomfield, CT  06002   June 1 2005
 
In the course of a busy day, you may write a check at the grocery store, charge tickets to a ball game, rent a car, mail your tax returns or apply for a credit card. Chances are you don’t give these everyday transactions a second thought. But someone else WILL!
The 2000’s have spawned a new variety of crooks called identity thieves. Their stock in trade is your everyday transactions. Each transaction requires you to share personal information, your bank and credit card account numbers, your income; your Social Security number. An identity thief co-opts some piece of your personal information and appropriates it without your knowledge to commit fraud or theft.
Want help? Author Cynthia Bercowetz’s book, “Don’t Get Ripped Off! Get Help! Tell It to George” is a dynamic consumer survival guide filled with advice and answers to consumer problems.
She informs consumers about the most common types of identity theft, and what to do if their identities are stolen. Bercowetz was a victim herself and explains what she did to track down the ID thieves.
The consumer survival guide .can be purchased at Amazon, or directly form the publisher, Wash Brook Press, Cynthia Bercowetz, 22 Oak Lane, Bloomfield, Ct. 06002. 
 
Cynthia Bercowetz (consumreye@aol.com)
Author/Consumer Advocate
22 Oak Lane
Bloomfield, CT   06002
Phone : 860-243-2208

 

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