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OfferVault Adds Offers from Credit.com into it’s Leading CPA Offer Aggregator

New York, NY (PRWEB) November 28, 2011

Offervault, the premier search platform for CPA offer data from over 100 CPA networks, announced the addition of CPA offers from Credit.com, the go-to source for people across the credit spectrum for expert information about credit scoring, credit reporting, and credit cards.

Credit.com, a leading consumer education and financial resource website, provides straightforward education, expert advice and “best-of-breed” products and services with unbiased product reviews to help consumers make smarter financial decisions.

Credit.com campaigns include a wide range of offerings including Personal Loans, Credit Cards, Prepaid Cards and more.

Examples of top performing campaigns:

Personal Loans

Easy and secure online application
No application fee, no prepayment penalties
Loans up to $ 35,000 available
Secured or unsecured personal loan

Credit Cards

Orchard Bank Classic MasterCards

An excellent credit card for help rebuilding credit reports to 3 major credit bureaus monthly
Acceptance at millions of locations worldwide, including website purchases and reservations
Account information is updated and available 24/7
Email and text messages are available to remind of any upcoming payment due date

Prepaid Cards

Walmart MoneyCard MasterCard® Prepaid Card

No issuance fee online
No credit check or bank account required
Use everywhere MasterCard® debit is accepted
$ 10 bonus with qualifying Direct Deposit (for a limited time only)

About Credit.com

Credit.com provides straightforward news, tools, education and products to help consumers make smarter financial decisions. Credit.com was established in 1995 with the goal of helping consumers with any credit standing to establish, rebuild, enhance and effectively use credit. Their industry experts create clear paths for consumers looking to improve their finances.

About Offervault

Offervault (http://www.offervault.com/), founded in July 2007 as the leading aggregator of CPA offers since grown to become the premier aggregator and hub for CPA networks and affiliates with over 100 networks, 30,000 offers and 40,000 registered members.

Offervault is free for affiliates and publishers. It enables them to quickly identify top offers and compare payouts between networks from a single search interface. It also saves hours of time by helping publishers research niches, browse new offers that are updated daily, preview landing pages, receive optional email alerts for new offers based on their criteria and to sign up for new networks.

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Pasadena Attorney Eugene Alkana Protects Clients From Real Estate Fraud and Scams

Hollywood, CA (PRWEB) October 23, 2011

California attorney creates a cost effective initiative for Californians to help fight against real estate fraud. Attorney Eugene Alkana has serviced thousands of real estate clients including residential and commercial property owners, buyers, sellers, developers, contractors, landlords and tenants and has been deemed by his legal peers as an expert in the field.

There are a lot of things that can go wrong in a real estate transaction. Attorney Eugene Alkana has advised several thousand home owners through tough financial times. He has created consulting strategies for foreclosure prevention, modifications to refinancing. This morning

Eugene Alkana announced that he has launched an cost free initiative to help California home owners assess whether fraud has been committed in the process of trying to save their home.

“When you believe you are a victim of real estate fraud, send me a prepared written explanation with the following information: Names, addresses and telephone numbers of the people and companies involved. Copies of all documents: Front and back of any cancelled checks, money orders you signed or that were given to you, grant deeds, quitclaim deeds, trust deeds, reconveyance, assignment deeds, notes, contracts, agreements, escrow instruments and any loan statements. I will help you assess your situation and can consult you on a multitude of scenarios,” says Eugene Alkana. Alkana’s practice also gives free tips and advice to avoid being scammed from up front fees, reviewing letters from your lenders, transfer of titles,mortgage payments, and always read what you sign.”

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Advice on Avoiding Dating Scams from SinglesDatingWebsites.com

San Francisco, CA (PRWEB) September 12, 2011

While thousands of people find lifelong relationships through dating websites, prospective daters must still be vigilant and educated on how to avoid dating scammers who can steal their hearts as well as their wallets. That is according to singlesdatingwebsites.com, a premier website for obtaining reviews on the top dating websites.

U.S. and Canadian authorities conclude that many of these scammers originate in Ghana and Nigeria where fraud schemes run rampant; especially in today’s economy. Scammers target lonely people by posting fraudulent profiles and photos on dating sites, and prey on the romantic impulses of their unsuspecting victims.

In order to first build trust, the scammers will often use stolen credit cards to purchase flowers and gifts to send to their victims over several months. Once the victim’s trust is gained, the scammers will ask to send packages to the victim’s house saying that foreign policy issues prevent them from receiving them directly.

Scammers have also been known to send money orders to prospective victims on dating sites claiming they can’t get them cashed in their country. They then ask the person to cash them and wire the money back to them. The money orders received by the victims have been washed and changed from a low dollar amount to hundreds or thousands of dollars. “The victim is left holding the bag for the amount of the scam since they cashed the money orders,” said the review website representative.

Men and women are equal targets of scammers on dating sites as evidenced by a popular scam where a popular adult film star’s photo is used in the female scammer’s profile. Both men and women have lost their life savings to these scams because they were unaware of the warning signs.

According to singlesdatingwebsites.com, online daters can protect themselves in numerous ways. In addition to intuition, websites like romancescam.com offer compiled lists of known sweetheart scammers while others like tineye.com allow users to conduct profile image searches to see if they are used elsewhere on the internet.

Ultimately, online daters should use trusted dating websites with extensive admission processes to get a better match and help eliminate scammers. Since no dating website is 100 percent safe from scammers, daters should always do their research and remain vigilant.

Singlesdatingwebsites.com is a good place to start as they provide a simple way to review the top dating websites by rating, features, price and demographic focus. Many of the most well known and respected sites are listed and users also have access to a growing list of blog posts that tell more about what to do and not to do in the dating world. For more information, please visit http://www.singlesdatingwebsites.com

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How to Protect Your College Student from Identity Theft

Los Angeles, California (PRWEB) August 30, 2011

As millions of teenagers start their educational journeys in college this fall, thousands risk identity theft. During their early adult years, they are building one of the most important financial aspects of their life–their credit scores. But with their naive approach to finances and their inattentiveness to protecting their most personal information, many college students fall victim to identity theft because of their lack of knowledge and follow-through in identity theft protection. Identity Theft Labs, one of the most trusted evaluation and review websites for identity theft protection companies, helps college students reduce their risk of identity theft with a few simple tips for parents:

Educate your child on phishing scams

With schools offering student emails, many students will become a victim of phishing scams. This is where a bogus email is sent to the student, which looks official and appears to come from a financial institution. This email will ask for personal information, such as “verifying your account,” in which sends your student to a false website for them to enter in this data. As soon as this information is obtained by the third party, their personal data is at risk, as are their financial accounts. Remind your student never to send personal information through the internet, and to contact their financial company through their customer service number if being requested to send this data.

Warn of credit applications

Many college students are bombarded with credit card applications in the mail and on campus. Each time they apply, they give out their Social Security numbers, income, and personal data. Remind your student not to apply for credit cards, and to bring home any credit card offers that they receive so you can look them over and help them make a good choice for their first credit card. Or add them as an additional cardholder on one of your own credit cards to assist them in starting to build their credit without putting them at risk for identity theft. Also, send them to college with a shredder to shred any credit card applications they receive on campus that they don’t plan on applying for. Identity thieves can use these tossed applications to create a credit card under a student’s name and start racking up fraudulent purchases and ruining their new credit scores.

Enroll in a monitoring service

Enrolling your student in a credit monitoring service can help you and your student keep track of what is going on with their credit score and financial happenings. Each time they come home (for school break–or laundry!), sit down with them and view their credit reports through the service. Talking about finances with your child will not only help them understand the importance of building their financial future at a young age, but can give you the opportunity to talk to them about saving money, spending wisely, and donating to their local community. Websites like Identity Theft Labs can help you make a decision regarding the best credit monitoring service for your student by offering LifeLock reviews, Identity Guard reviews, TrustedID reviews, and other identity theft protection services that are available online.

Teaching your child financial responsibility is one thing, but letting them know the ways to protect themselves from identity theft is another. Talk with your child about the dangers of identity theft on their financial future, and sit down together to visit Identity Theft Labs to discuss credit report monitoring and identity theft protection techniques.

About Identity Theft Labs

Identity Theft Labs mission and devotion is to increase awareness among consumers on a national level for protecting themselves from the devastating effects of identity theft. Identity theft has been ranked as the single, fastest growing crime in the United States today. Identity Theft Labs is considered to be the most trusted evaluation and review website for identity theft protection companies on the market today. You can discover high quality, credible, and unbiased reviews by going to the following website: http://www.IdentityTheftLabs.com. Please contact Identity Theft Labs at 1-800-691-9204 for questions, assistance, basic inquiries, and media requests.

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NationalCreditReport.com Establishes Social Media Platforms Offering More Ways To Protect Yourself From Identity Theft

Delray Beach, FL (PRWEB) February 23, 2010

NationalCreditReport.com, a leading credit monitoring services company, announced the launch of their social media channels. Using Facebook, YouTube and Twitter, the company will publish videos and reports on ways to protect yourself from identity theft and credit card fraud. The interactive websites also play a crucial role in providing consumers an alternative way to learn about free credit reports and ways to improve your credit report and scores.

NationalCreditReport.com’s social media pages are designed with the consumer in mind. Each video and post will be extremely relevant, offering protection tips and ways to protect yourself from identity theft along with credit monitoring advice, and new industry tools and news. Individuals are encouraged to comment and leave messages for other consumers and ask questions for credit monitoring services experts to answer.

“There are a lot of sources on the Internet where people can turn for free credit reports and some receive false information. Now, because so many consumers are connected through social media, we have developed a social media plan that will help demystify the industry and educate consumers about credit monitoring services, credit reports, credit scores and identity theft. We ask consumers to become a fan, or “friend” us to receive the most accurate and up-to-date information regarding free credit reports, credit monitoring and preventing identity theft,” said Samuel S. Ambrose, vice president of marketing and operations at NationalCreditReport.com.

About NationalCreditReport.com

Since 2004, NationalCreditReport.com has specialized in providing credit information and credit monitoring services to consumers to help protect them from identity theft and understand their credit reports and scores.

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Free Financial Help from Consolidated Credit: Experts Urge that it is Time for a Fall Financial Check-Up

Ft. Lauderdale, FL (PRWEB) September 15, 2011

Now that the summer fun is over, it’s back to reality. With the kids back in school, this can be a great time to do an assessment of one’s personal finances and make a plan for future spending. Consolidated Credit Counseling Services Inc. is urging consumers to evaluate their expenses to make sure their personal finances are in order for the rest of the year.

In the first half of 2011, the average national mortgage debt per borrower increased to $ 190,115, according to TransUnion. The average credit card debt per borrower was $ 4,679.

“With debt in the United States continuously growing, it is extremely vital to seize control of your current finances,” says Howard Dvorkin, CPA and founder of Consolidated Credit. “The best way to end the year is to achieve financial prosperity through knowledge of your assets, money management and proper savings.”

Dvorkin, who has had almost 20 years of financial experience, is offering a Fall Financial Check-Up to help consumers remain on top of their money situation before the Christmas crush is upon them. Steps consumers should follow to do a financial check-up:

1.    Get a free credit report. The Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA) requires each of the nationwide consumer reporting companies — Equifax, Experian, and TransUnion — to provide a free credit report, at your request, once every 12 months. Visit annualcreditreport.com to request it immediately. Knowing one’s credit score is a a valuable asset for any future large purchases or employment opportunities.

2.    Pay off debts. Don’t put off debt any longer. If debt is becoming a burden, enroll in a debt counseling agency to get help. Certified financial counselors can offer advice that can lower payments by consolidating debt, enabling a person to become debt-free faster and easier.

3.    Manage finances. Create a budget to know how much you’re able to spend each month. Do not use credit cards; it’s much better to pay for items in cash to avoid credit card troubles. Also, start a savings account in case any emergency expenses turn up.

4.    Do taxes early. Gather documents and receipts now. It’s better to start on taxes early to allow time for changes. Do research on allowable deductions. For example, medical expenses that exceed 7.5 percent of income can be deducted.

5.    Identify goals. People are more encouraged to save money if they have a goal in mind. A trip to Hawaii or a cruise in the Bahamas can serve as an incentive to putting away savings. Buying a newer car in full can also be a great aspiration as there is no need for financing or any associated interest.

6.    Protect assets. Look over insurance plans and see if any policies have changed. Review homeowner’s or renter’s insurance to make sure the home is well-protected. Don’t forget about auto insurance and health insurance. Also, do a quick check-up on the warranties associated with expensive electronics to determine whether purchasing a newer model is better than extending the warranty.

7.    Review retirement plans. One of the best tax-reducing strategies is to contribute the maximum to a 401(k) plan. The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has announced that the 2011 maximum pre-tax contribution to the 401(k) is $ 16,500. If one’s employer doesn’t have a 401(k), they may want to set up an Individual Retirement Account (IRA) on their own to ensure funds for retirement.

For more information about money management visit http://www.ConsolidatedCredit.org.

About Consolidated Credit Counseling Services, Inc.

Founded in 1993, Consolidated Credit has helped more than 5 million families out of debt. Consolidated Credit provides personal finance educational assistance, financial wellness programs, budgeting assistance and debt management plans throughout the United States.

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Newly Launched SecureFraud Protects Individuals and Businesses from Falling Victim to Online Fraud

Lexington, KY (PRWEB) November 27, 2008

Despite measures and advanced technology implemented by some of the industry’s leading auction sites including eBay.com to curb fraudulent activity, online fraud continues to be one of the fastest growing crimes in the United States and abroad. SecureFraud (http://www.securefraud.com), a newly launched firm specializing in loss prevention and online fraud investigation, now provides services to both businesses and individuals who want to protect themselves from online fraud. Serving clients in the United States, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands, SecureFraud is poised to become the industry’s foremost authority on auction fraud and other forms of online fraud, and American consumers’ first choice for fraud protection, reporting and loss prevention.

According to the 2007 Internet Crime Report, fraud victims in the United States suffered nearly $ 240 million in reported losses, a significant increase from the previous year. Of those cases, auction fraud was the most widely reported complaint. Experts now fear that as an increasing number of consumers utilize auction sites during the economic downturn to find bargains, or to make additional income by selling household items, the potential for increased auction fraud and other types of online fraud could be enormous.

“The number of reported Internet fraud victims and the calculated total of losses is staggering, and it’s not just growing everyday, it’s growing every hour,” said Paul McAfee (CIO) Chief Information Officer. “What’s even more troubling is the number of fraud victims who don’t come forward to report auction fraud and other forms of online fraud. Unfortunately, many fraud victims feel like they don’t have an advocate, or don’t know where to turn for fraud protection, so they decide to just cut their losses. Internet scammers are capitalizing on this segment of the population in a big way.”

While a number of government organizations have been established to help fraud victims report auction fraud, and other types of online fraud, the process can be time-consuming, cumbersome and in many cases offer little to no results. SecureFraud offers efficient fraud investigation services, fraud protection, and fraud prevention tools to help mitigate frequent complaints by fraud victims, and fill a void in the industry. The company’s experienced fraud team has a long history of working online fraud, auction fraud and other types of auction and ecommerce fraud investigations. They work closely with fraud victims, including individuals and both small and large companies to combat and prevent online fraud, and implement innovative fraud protection and loss prevention measures.

SecureFraud is available for both individuals and businesses, starting at just $ 10 per month. The company offers fraud protection, fraud investigation and reporting services handled by a world-class loss prevention and fraud department. Statistics show that companies and individuals who employ the assistance of an experienced loss prevention and fraud department are 60 percent less likely to become fraud victims.

“Approximately 500,000 online fraud cases have been turned over to federal, state and local law enforcement agencies for investigation, however many of these cases are never resolved to the satisfaction of the fraud victims,” said McAfee. “At SecureFraud, we diligently investigate each case, with the goals of locating the perpetrator and retrieving lost assets. We’re very committed to the work that we do, and the pursuit of justice for fraud victims everywhere.”

For more information about auction fraud, fraud protection or to report online fraud, visit http://www.securefraud.com. Enroll in SecureFraud’s Individual Total Protection Plan or the Business Total Protection Plan today.

About SecureFraud:

SecureFraud is an industry leader in fraud protection, online fraud investigation and resolution, and is led by experienced and successful loss prevention and fraud professionals. Based in Lexington, Kentucky, the company serves clients throughout the United States, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands.

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Identity Theft Protection Services: Helping Save Your Credit Goodwill and Money from Identity Theft Monsters

Personal Information protection is a cliché lately. As per FTC estimates in 2010, 9.1 million people became victim of identity theft. Since 1995, Identity theft has augmented from 250%-300% every year. It takes around 175 hours to restore your identity. 1 in every 8 costumer is a victim of Identity theft. On average, discovery of thieves takes around 14 months-ample time for the financial damage to be done.

Given the percentage of increase, the truth is that most of us would become a victim of identity theft at some point of time in our lives, if not multiple times.

How prepared are you to manage identity theft? Will you know in case somebody was utilizing your personal information to open accounts? Albeit availing a personal credit report can aid monitor your credit, identity theft cannot be prevented completely. The idea of one’s identity theft can be frightening, but identity theft protection services can render you with great help.

Identity Theft Prevention is extremely important during the current times, which is why people who are highly concerned about it invest a lot in reliable protection services. With a top notch level of identity theft safety, you can be certain that the world is lot safer for you.

To ensure maximum security with regards to identity theft protection, it will certainly make a lot of sense to confabulate companies that provide identity theft protection services. Identity theft protection agencies follow certain watertight security techniques that will make it virtually impossible for an identity thief to steal or impersonate your personal information. By hiring identity theft protection services, you will not be required to deal with refused credit or need to spend long hours in spiraling your credit or be harassed by various collection agencies; the worst thing that can happen to you is that you might end up going to jail. However, there are numerous considerations that you must assess before hiring a good agency that offers identity theft protection services:

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Privacy: The first consideration when it comes to hiring identity theft agency is privacy. When identity theft agency can render “ace” level of privacy of personal and confidential information, you can be certain that ID theft is kept at bay. A good identity theft agency guarantees that your privacy status makes it grueling for hackers to extract your crucial information when you go online. Furthermore, it makes identity theft arduous by means of securing your vital information rather than showing it.

Excellent Features: There are innumerable theft protection services out there, and in order to hire the right one you have to ensure that the agency has fraud alerts for your credit documents and files. This works by making sure that the agency would call you in person when they need to send something that would have your personal information on it.

Charges: The services of identity theft agency must have the price of service equal to the protection you require. While it is a fact that prices charged by identity theft agencies for their services are not cheap, still it is a good investment because you would be saving 1000s of dollars and your credit reputation in the end.

Once you have identified an agency that you think would deliver the right protection services, you must then know what to expect from that agency.

Basically an agency, which is providing you with theft protection services, will first of all start safeguarding your identity by setting up fraud alerts that would stay on your credit documents for all the 3-major credit agencies. Secondly, the identity protection agency will monitor the Internet closely and will also check the black markets in order to ensure that your credit card number, driver’s license number or social security card number is not being used by identity thieves.

To ensure peace of mind and securer life, it is recommended that you must hire identity theft services rather than trying your unproven techniques of preventing identity theft. Knowing that a type of Stop identity theft has been activated in order to keep a security check over all your transactions certainly makes you feel confident and secure in conducting all your transactions wherever you go.

www.dailydollarnewsletter.com There are several identity theft tips that have been shared in other DailyDollar articles. Some are pretty obvious such as to shred or cut up your expired or closed credit and debit cards. Simply putting them in the trash whole leaves you exposed to dumpster diving crooks who search for personal information that they can easily use to steal your identity. However, there is one identity theft tip that many people forget to follow and you will be surprised how simple, but powerful it is. Today Learn The Risks Of Not Signing Back Of Your Credit Cards The Three Little Words That Help Protect You From Identity Theft. How To Be Proactive At The Check Out Click the link provided below this video to read the full story about how to protect yourself and your hard earned dollars from identity and cyber theft only at dailydollarnewsletter.com

Data Protection as a Protection from Identity Theft

There are infinite reasons for a person to think about ways to protect against identity theft and fraud. When put into simple words, identity theft refers to one person using some other person’s identity as his own, without that person’s knowledge, especially for something that is unlawful. Stealing identity can be backed by various causes the most important of which is financial. The simplest and the most common form of financial identity stealing refers to using someone else’s credit card without the latter’s knowledge. When pick pockets manage to get access to another person’s wallet, the first thing they go for is the credit cards which they can use pretending to be the owner, especially when the cards do not have any photo identity. There can be other forms of identity theft also. People can pose as some other person to avail medication that they are not entitled to. This kind of medical identity theft is done for the sake of narcotic based prescription drugs. Criminal identity theft is very dangerous. It refers to a situation when the criminal in question poses to be another person when the police tries to arrest him or her. Throughout decades, stealing of identity has done great harm to the victims which makes it necessary for all to take some measures to protect against identity theft and fraud.

Data protection is vital, in fact, non negotiable. This data can be about medical information, financial information, social security information, information about work and employment, information on daily life so on and so forth. While much cannot be done about the last (that is information on daily life and activities) , a person can make conscious decisions to avoid leakage of vital information as far as the others are concerned. Some people are left speechless when they discover that their identities have been misused. They may think that they had ensured all kinds of data protection that a person can possibly make, why then did things go wrong? The answer may lie in disposal of items bearing vital information. This is to say that, people are usually not cautious while they dispose papers like credit card bills, statements of banks that have account number or, social security number mentioned in it. When these documents get deposited in the trash unscathed, the dumpster divers can make the best of it. Shredding the papers before disposing them is the best way to ensure data protection while data is stored in paper.

The identity thieves have, however, developed by infinite degrees and can easily hack into the digital data records of their victims very easily. Therefore, those who have their vital data stored in online format, must ensure that their firewalls are up all the time and that their antivirus does not expire. Installing file shredders is also a very good idea when to protect against identity theft and fraud. In case you have a file stored in your hardware containing vital information that you may not need, but can be misused by others if they get to it, then File shredders can ensure that these files will be completely deleted from the hard ware beyond recovery, thus ensuring data protection.

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What Are The Steps Involved To Protect Yourself From E-mail ID Theft?

The internet and email services have actually created easy opportunities to conduct business and stay in touch with your loved ones. However these online services have also created several ways for criminals to hack your email address and passwords so that they can ultimately steal your identity.

At one time people who stole identity of others had a hard time working on a process to get information of the person, but today things have become quite easy to deceive a target through email services. You might have every wondered how and why people steal your identity through email address. It is quite simply for them and when your identity is stolen the thief would pretend to be you and gain access to all your financial and personal records. They might even ruin your credit and even commit crimes in your name.

About email address theft

The main advantage in stealing your email address if for spamming and phishing. This email identity theft can easily convince others that any message or communication is conducted from a legitimate business or person. Therefore there have been huge cases reported for business email address theft. Therefore when you think that your conversation is held with a legitimate organization then you would probably share all your personal and financial information with them and this is called as phishing.

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Why email address is stolen

The other common reason for email id theft is for spamming. Although most of the spam messages are blocked by internet service provider, the person committing email identity theft might send email to a firm or individual under the name of legitimate person and there are fewer possibilities for it to be blocked.

Email identity theft is also considered as identity fraud through which the hacker would use email id of the victim to get their all their information. However it is obvious that everyone would want to protect their email address but there are still crimes taking place. In this case you need to take extra precautions in protecting your email address.  

How to prevent email id theft

Be careful when using spam emails that ask for your social security number, bank account information, passwords and other personal info. It is important you check the mail’s reliability before disclosing this information. Internet phishing scams are a common issue in today’s cyber world. You might find some mails asking you to fill up several details such as mail id, password, credit card number on their form. It might have a high leeway of being scams. You might get some scam mails from the perpetrator asking you to update your credit card information in the form they provide. These mails must be stopped immediately as they can cause identity theft. You might even receive mails claiming to be from banks and might ask you for your bank account passwords. You should know that there are very rare cases of banks asking you for such information through mails. The mails which are written with several misspellings and grammatical errors would likely come under scams and might even be from identity thieves.