Protect Yourself from Identity Theft

Identity theft is a form of fraud in which someone pretends to be someone else by assuming that person’s identity. Unfortunately identity theft is becoming more and more common in today’s digital age, as it is becoming easier and easier to find information via the web.

Protect Yourself from Identity Theft. Oakmonte Village at Lake Mary is hosting a seminar by Mr. McCoy (the co-director of The Identity Theft Institute) on Tuesday, June 22, 2010 at 7pm.

Michael McCoy is the co-director of The Identity Theft Institute ™ and is a licensed insurance agent in multiple states including Iowa. Mr. McCoy is the Co-Author of two books on Identity Theft, “The Silent Crime” (2008) and “Who Is You”: The Coming Epidemic of Identity Theft”(2005). McCoy is a national instructor and corporate lecturer on identity theft and has designed and teaches the first of its kind national continuing education class on the subject. He is the designer and instructor for Iowa State University’s newest class on Identity Theft.

Mr. McCoy conducts general public education seminars on identity theft throughout the country for law enforcement, banks, insurance agencies, corporations and is an international consultant on identity theft.

He is the recipient of the 2007 and 2008 National Science Foundation (NSF) and Iowa State University Center for Information Protection (CIP) grant to study the effects of identity theft on corporations as it relates to the behavior of the individual employee.

For more information, contact Oakmonte Village at 407-732-5800 today.