Events
El Paseo Bank will sponsor "Shred It Day" to help area residents combat identity theft.
Area residents can take paper, file folders, binders and envelopes to be shredded for free.
The event will be from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Thursday at the Marketplace, 39-580 Washington St., Palm Desert, CA. Participants are limited to three file boxes, about the size that copy paper is sold in.
The bank is encouraging participants to make a charitable donation to Children's Discovery Museum of the Desert, Big Brothers Big Sisters, and the First Tee.
Bob Hartle will be the speaker at the Ronald Reagan Action Club at 7 p.m. March 20 in the Maricopa County Republican Headquarters, 10050 W. Bell Road, Sun City, AZ.
Hartle is an expert on identity theft. He is responsible for the laws passed in Washington, D.C., regarding this crime. He continues to watch the laws on ID theft and travels to the Capitol to testify. He and his wife were victims.
The public will hear his experience and how to avoid becoming a vicitm. Free packets will be given to help people learn how to prevent this crime.
Residents in Flagler County, FL can learn how to detect and avoid identity theft.
The city of Palm Coast will host an informative identity theft seminar on Thursday. It will begin at 1 p.m. at the Palm Coast Community Center on Palm Coast Parkway Northeast.
Captain Mark Carman of the Sheriff's office will educate community members on protecting themselves against credit card fraud.
Randall Brown, the Consumer Outreach coordinator for the Florida State Department of Financial Services, will also speak about important ways to protect your identity.
State Rep. Kate Segal, D-Battle Creek, will host a workshop discussing identity theft protection from 10 a.m. to noon Monday at Forks Senior Center, 1418 Cooper Street, Albion, MI.
The guest panel will include Karen Booth, Adult Protective Services Supervisor with the Michigan Department of Human Services, and Detective Sgt. Richard Michael of the Michigan State Police Southeast Criminal Investigation Division Identity Theft Team.
Another workshop is scheduled from 3 to 5 p.m. Monday, March 29, at Burnham Brook Center, 200 W. Michigan Ave., Battle Creek.
The office of U.S. Congressman Kenny Marchant (TX-24) will hold an identity theft forum at 11:30 a.m. April 5 at the Coppell Senior Center, 345 W. Bethel Road, Coppell, TX.
“I am looking forward to the program,” said Laci McKinney, director of the Coppell Senior Center. “It will be an educational forum so people can learn about identity theft.”
Lunch will be provided for seniors at 11:30 a.m. followed by the forum at 12 p.m.
Sgt. Patrick Moug of the Livonia Police Department will be the featured presenter April 8 during a free seminar on identity theft.
Open to the public, the seminar will take place 11 a.m. to noon at Davenport University, 19499 Victor Parkway, Livonia, MI.
It is sponsored by Steve Swaggerty of Klassa, Swaggerty & Associates, a financial advisory practice of Ameriprise Financial Services Inc.
Are you looking for ways to… Improve your credit rating? Properly manage your credit? Avoid being a victim of identity theft? Then don’t miss Senator Kemp Hannon’s Credit Rating and Identity Theft forum.
The seminar features former Nassau County Deputy Commissioner of Consumer Affairs, James Reed. Mr. Reed will cover the topics of managing credit, how to fix bad credit, how to avoid identity theft and what to do if you are a victim of identity theft.
FBI Special Agent Jeff Lanza will give an interactive presentation with real-life examples on Wednesday morning, from 8:30 to 10 a.m. inside the Rave Theaters at Westroads Mall, Omaha, NE.
For more information call 898-8560.
Financial adviser Kim Butwell will discuss identity theft protection at a Millbrook Rotary Club luncheon from 12:15-1:30 p.m. April 14 at the Millbrook Carriage House, 18 Alden Place, Millbrook, NY in the village.
Butwell, of Wealth Management Solutions at Merrill Lynch in Poughkeepsie, will cover topics such as: What is personal information? How can theft happen? What should you do if your information is stolen?
This talk is open to everyone. Lunch is $14.
Details about the rotary club can be found at www.millbrookrotary.org.
Jeff Lanza's identity theft prevention seminar is Wednesday from 1-2:30 p.m. at the Edgewood Cinemas, 5220 S. 56th St., Lincoln, NE. The event is free and open to the public, but the Better Business Bureau asks that you call (800) 649-6814, Ext. 8600, to make reservations.
Identity theft is on the rise, both in Nebraska and nationally, which means Jeff Lanza has plenty of work left to do.
The retired FBI special agent, who spent more than 20 years fighting white-collar crime, now spends his days educating people about identity theft.
On April 15, Former FBI Special Agent Jeff Lanza will give a presentation on identity theft at the Holiday Inn City Centre, Sioux Falls, SD at 7:30 a.m.
His talk, “Countering the Crooks Craving Your Identity,” will focus on how criminals steal identities and how businesses and people can keep their identities safe.
Reservations are required. Call 271-2066, extension 8760.
This Saturday from 8 a.m. to noon, the public and small businesses are invited to shred up to three boxes or bags of sensitive documents. That's going on at the Methodist Health System at 85th and Dodge, Omaha, NE.
For more information call 898-8560.
BBB is hosting "Secure Your ID" Day on April 17, 2010. The local shredding event will be held from 8:30 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. in the parking lot of Coastal Federal Credit Union, located off Wake Forest Road at 1000 St. Albans Drive, Raleigh, NC 27609.
Participants are encouraged to bring up to three boxes or bags of documents that have been removed from binders. At the event, BBB and other partner organizations will provide tips and resources to help consumers protect their identity. Event information is available at www.easternnc.bbb.org/secure-your-id.
On Saturday, April 17, the BBB will have its semi-annual Shred It Day from 9 a.m. to noon at the W.H Lyon Fairgrounds, Sioux Falls, SD, Madison Street entrance.
Residents and small businesses can bring up to three boxes or bags of documents to be shredded.
The Better Business Bureau Serving Asheville and Western North Carolina will host a “Shred Day/Secure Your ID” Day from 9 a.m.-1 p.m. April 17 at Executive Park’s College Street parking lot in Asheville.
The co-sponsors for this event are OnTrack Financial Education & Counseling and American Security Shredding. Residents and small businesses are encouraged to attend the event and take a key step in identity protection by shredding and properly disposing of their sensitive documents. BBB staff will be on-site to provide expert advice and tips for identity theft protection.
The Watertown Lions Club in Connecticut, in conjunction with LaBonnes Market of Watertown, and "U Shred it" Company of Cheshire, will hold its third annual "Shred it" project from 9 a.m. to 12 p.m. Saturday, April 17.
This project is to help protect one's identity and to prevent individuals from gaining personal information from improper discarding of personal info such as old bank or credit card statements, old tax returns, medical forms and any other personal accumulated material.
Old bills. Financial documents. Medical records. Legal papers.
After tax season, many people are left flooded with such papers. However, two libraries in the county have a solution.
The Mendham Township Library, at the corner of Cherry Lane and West Main Street, Brookside, NJ will hold "Shredder Day'' in the library parking lot from 9 a.m. to 12 p.m. on Saturday, April 17, to raise money for its facility.
