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Is Your Teen's Identity Protected?
The parents of teenagers spend many hours teaching them how to drive safely, discussing the importance of an education and warning about the dangers of illegal drugs. Now they can add identity theft to the list of items meriting special attention.
Identity theft is an ever-increasing threat for all consumers, but children and teenagers make particularly good targets. That is because they have “unblemished” credit records (indeed, they have no credit records at all!); once their identity is stolen it can go undetected for months, if not years, and teenagers and children are likely to be ignorant to any signs that their identity has been compromised.
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BBB International Award Program Celebrates 10 Years of Honoring Ethical Businesses; New Program Developed to Recognize Young Ethical Leaders
Call for Entries: Outstanding, Upstanding Businesses Encouraged to Step Forward
This year marks the 10th anniversary of the Better Business Bureau International Torch Award for Marketplace Ethics. Presented annually since 1996, the BBB Torch Award honors businesses that demonstrate exceedingly high standards of behavior toward customers, employees, suppliers, shareholders and the communities in which they do businesses.
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