D.S. Lawson Consultants                            

Identity Theft

Financial and Criminal

Identity Theft is one of the fastest growing crimes and although steps have been made to curb its existence, its still here and will be for a long time.  Whether you are an individual, small or large business, corporation, financial institution, association or union, the effects of identity theft can cripple your financial activities and leave you frustrated by time consuming resolution and associated costs.

Many businesses, financial institutions, organizations, associations and unions handle some type of personal and confidential information belonging to their customers, clients, members and employees.  Information such as social security numbers, date of births, drivers license numbers, credit card and banking account numbers.

According to the Federal Trade Center (FTC), identity theft costs the consumer five billion dollars annually while the annual cost for businesses is 50 billion dollars.

The theft of our personal identifying information, whether we were victimized by a burgalry, a lost or stolen wallet/purse, deceit from a trusted family member or friend, or even data loss from from a second or third party that had legal access to our information, can take many hours and some amount of expense to recover from if the loss turns into an identity theft incident.

There are criminals who use our personal identifying information during criminal activity too.  A mere traffic stop and citation, arrests for theft, DUI and drug possession can lead to a warrant for your arrest and an undeserved criminal record!

Criminals fraudulently open accounts in your name and will even make the monthy payments to insure they have credit on hand until the fraudulent account is discovered or simply maximized out and it turns into a collection matter.

Your personal identifying information is used to gain basic medical and dental procedures fraudulently too!

What We Do

D.S. Lawson Consultants provides victim assistance to individuals who are struck with minor or complex incidents of identity theft, whether financial or criminal.

For businesses, corporations, financial institutions, associations and unions, D.S. Lawson Consultants can provide workplace risk assessments, revealing exposures that could impact negatively to your business.

We also provide training and educational sessions to assist employess at all levels to understand, recognize and take action against identity theft in their workplace. These are important tools, especially if you record and retain peronal identifying information of your customers and employees.

Workshops and seminars can be provided to your customers, clients and employees to better educate themselves.  This results in reducing their risk to identity theft on a personl level as well as minimizing your company's exposure to liability and financial loss.

D.S. Lawson Consultants has the resources to assist businesses in complying with laws such as the:

Fair Credit Reporting Act

Gramm Leach Bliley Act

Sarbanes Oxley Act

Personal Data Privacy and Security Act

Identity Theft Protection Act

Notification Of Risk To Personal Data Act 

D.S. Lawson Consultants also has victim assistance programs to offer your employees and customers. If a valued employee, customer or client becomes a victim of identity theft under your sponsered program, they can contact a victim assistance specialist at D.S. Lawson Consultants to handle their case from beginning to the end.

Are You Next? 

We here at D.S. Lawson Consultants can help you resolve your frustration!

D.S. Lawson Consultants will assist you in finding  your way out from the identity theft maze ! 

Victim Assistance for Individuals

Victim Assistance for Employees

Victim Assistance for Customers

Workplace Risk Assessments

Training for Employees

Education for Customers

Consultation

Incident Response Plans