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I just checked out of my hotel room in NYC after delivering an identity theft speech to the most wonderful New Yorkers at the Federal Reserve Bank of NY, and it reminded me of a question I hear constantly as I travel:

Can my identity be stolen off of the room key cards that hotels use? Continue reading “Hotel Key Cards & Identity Theft”

Sometimes I feel like I have no privacy. I didn’t think this had anything to do with identity theft when I first realized it, but it does. On the weekends, my email lures me into my home office to check for new messages. I don’t actually need to pick them up, but I’m driven to, like an addiction to Amaretto Milano cookies - I can’t help myself. I’m not exactly sure what I think I’m going to find in my inbox (maybe the good news of Continue reading “Privacy is a Matter of Life Balance”

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Questions? I love questions. Some questions have answers, which is fine; we should share those answers. But the questions that impress me most are those that start conversations. The people that I like and respect the most ask a lot of questions - of me (is my ego showing?); of life; of themselves. My wife is one of those people. Kids are those people. Joe, a checker at my local market (who has Down’s Syndrome and asks me every time I visit, “What’s up with your bad self, Elvis?”), is one of those people. I want to be one of those people. Care to join me?

When not asking questions, John Sileo is the award-winning author of Stolen Lives: Identity Theft Prevention Made Simple and is considered to be America’s top professional identity theft speaker. He often asks himself who exactly gets to decide who’s at “the top”. He’s pretty sure it’s his marketing guy. Curious? Visit www.ThinkLikeASpy.com.