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			Upcoming Learning Opportunities Have you or someone you love been victimized by identity theft? In many cases, the crime is not discovered until months later. Join me at Scottsdale Community College for a two-hour seminar and learn how you can reduce your risk of identity theft. Register Online SCC Continuing Education For more information or to register, call 480-423-6321 "Stop Hiding Your Key Under the Flowerpot" Class times will be posted as they become available. Check back soon. Section: TBA SCC Campus Class Location: Room TBA Quoted in The Wall Street Journal How to Protect Your Private Information Your life is an open book online. It doesn't have to be. By Michael Totty January 29, 2007; Page R1 "On the Internet," as a New Yorker cartoon famously observed, "no one knows you're a dog." Thanks to the ease of finding personal information online, that may be the only thing about you they don't know. Indeed, for anyone who knows where to look, your address, phone number, birth date and more are only a few clicks away. "If someone wanted to limit this kind of information," says Ms. Stubbs, the private investigator, "they should have started years ago." Dedicated searchers can easily turn up property records, unlisted or cellphone numbers, and even more sensitive information such as Social Security, credit-card and bank-account numbers. In Broward County, Fla., a simple search through pet licenses can in fact tell whether you're a dog -- or at least whether you have one. Read the article. Presentations "Keys to Efficient Internet Searches - Tips from Ms. Marian Cybrarian" Association of Certified Fraud Examiners -- Arizona Chapter, June 2007 "Keys to Good Electronic Communication - Tips from Ms. Netiquette" Maricopa County Confidential Intermediary Study Group, March 2006 "Fishing For Information" Arizona State Supreme Court, Certification and Licensing Division Confidential Intermediary Program Annual Training, November 2004, November 2005, November 2006 "Slipper Searches - On Overview of Web Resources to Aid in CI Searches" Arizona State Supreme Court, Certification and Licensing Division Confidential Intermediary Program Annual Training, November 2003 "Five Easy Pieces" Arizona State Supreme Court, Certification and Licensing Division Confidential Intermediary Program Annual Training, November 2002 "Math and Spiders - Tips for More Efficient Internet Searches" Maricopa County Confidential Intermediary Workshop, 1999, May 2002