Your credit report contains important information about your financial history and ultimately paints a picture of your financial habits, both good and bad. Unfortunately, this… Read More »Disputing Errors on a Credit Report: Where Do Those Mistakes Come From?
Yes, debt collectors can now resort to social media. According to the Washington Post, recent decisions related to debt have permitted collection agencies to use… Read More »Can Debt Collectors Use Social Media?
Online identity theft refers to the act of stealing personal information to perform fraudulent activities. The most common of these occurs when someone makes fraudulent… Read More »How to Prevent Identity Theft Online – Some Helpful Tips
What does “dismissal with or without prejudice” really mean? To ordinary people, hearing anything “with prejudice” may sound vaguely bad – after all, no one… Read More »Dismissal With or Without Prejudice – What Does It Mean?
Robocalls Robocalls are autodialed or prerecorded messages made to your phone. If you answer the phone to a recorded message instead of a real person,… Read More »Robocalls: What Can Be Done?
Being a victim of credit fraud is a stressful and extremely inconvenient experience. It feels very invasive to have your personal information available to strangers… Read More »Security Freeze: How to Freeze Your Credit Report
For many people, their credit score is an important part of their life, and for others, they don’t realize how much a poor credit score… Read More »How Often Should You Check Your Credit Report for Errors?
Medical identity theft occurs when people use your personal information to make unwarranted claims to Medicare or other health insurers. Left unchecked, medical identity theft… Read More »What Is Medical Identity Theft?
Child identity theft? Yes, that can happen. Your child can have their identity stolen. We tend to think of identity theft as something that only… Read More »What Is Child Identity Theft?
It’s Emanwel Turnbull, attorney at the Holland Law Firm, P.C. – I’m writing this special blog post to tell you about my encounter with a… Read More »Telecheck Reports: A Broken Scanner or Inaccurate Consumer Reporting
