Identity Theft
Keep your identity safe and learn what to do if someone steals your personal information like Social Security numbers, credit card details, or bank account information.
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About protection for you and your family
Department of Veterans Affairs
Basic information on protecting yourself and your loved ones from cyber, phone, and identity scams.
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Avoid IRS online account identity theft by โhelpfulโ scammers
Internal Revenue Service
How to avoid an identity theft scam to get tax and financial data from your IRS Online Account.
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How to Protect Yourself from Cyber-Attacks and Scams
Department of Veterans Affairs
Veterans should be aware of cyber scams targeting their benefits, including phishing, identity theft, spoofing, email scams, ransomware, forgery and wire and mail fraud.
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How to spot and avoid identity theft
Federal Trade Commission
Articles on how Veterans can protect themselves and their families from multiple types of identity theft, how to place credit freezes, fraud alerts, and other free resources available, and how to check their credit for free.
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Identity Theft Central
Internal Revenue Service
Learn how to protect yourself and your family from identity theft, place credit freezes and fraud alerts, and access free resources available to veterans, such as credit checks.
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IRS guide to employment-related identity theft
Internal Revenue Service
What to do if you get an IRS or Social Security Administration letter saying you may have been a victim of employment identity theft.
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Report fraud, scams, and bad business practices
Federal Trade Commission
Report fraud, scams, and bad business practices to the Federal Trade Commission.
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Report Identity Theft
Federal Trade Commission
IdentityTheft.govย is the federal governmentโs one-stop resource for identity theft victims. The site provides streamlined checklists and sample letters to guide you through the recovery process.
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Reporte el robo de identidad
Federal Trade Commission
RobodeIdentidad.govย es un recurso centralizado gratuito para ayudarlo a reportar y recuperarse del robo de identidad.
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Reporte fraude
Federal Trade Commission
Proteja a su comunidad reportando fraudes, estafas y malas prรกcticas comerciales.
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Unemployment benefits and identity theft
Internal Revenue Service
How to know if youโre a victim of unemployment identity theft; how to report being scammed.
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VA Fraud Prevention Toolkit
Department of Veterans Affairs
This toolkit is a partnership between federal agencies, Veteran Service Organizations, Military Service Organizations, and the Department of Veterans Affairs to arm Veterans with the knowledge of the common schemes we are seeing.
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