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The phone or through the mail, there are a lot of different scams out there, but there are specific things you can do to protect yourself. stephanie elam is here and joins us with today's top tips. what do you have for us? >> trying to help people out here. let's start with the biggest one out there, identity theft. the biggest one is that research has found that the number of identity theft victims in the u.s. fell 28% to 8.1 million adults from 11 million. the cost to repair the identity theft jumped from 387 bucks to 630 bucks in 2010. no matter how urgent it sounds, don't respond to messag...
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