Capture the red flags – New rules require a comprehensive identity theft prevention program

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Abstract: Costing consumers more than $1 billion a year, identity theft continues to head the list of consumer complaints heard by the Federal Trade Commission. And in the United States a crime of this nature happens every 79 seconds. A full-fledged response to the problem, the Identity Theft Red Flags and Address Discrepancies final rules, requires an identity theft prevention program to be in place by Nov. 1, 2008.