From Victim To Victor: A Step By Step Guide For Ending the Nightmare of Identity Theft, Second Edition with CD

Mari Frank, attorney and leading expert on identity theft, is the creator of The Identity Theft Survival Kit (Porpoise Press, 1998, 2000) and the audiocassette series Identity Theft Prevention and Survival, and the author of the books From Victim to Victor: A Step by Step Guide for Ending the Nightmare of Identity Theft (2nd Edition, with CD, Porpoise Press, 2005), and Safeguard Your Identity: Protect yourself with a Personal Privacy Audit (Porpoise Press, 2005). Ms. Frank has testified on privacy and identity theft before congressional committees in the California legislature and in the U.S. Senate, and has testified on many bills concerning privacy and The Fair Credit-Reporting Act. In May 1999, she was summoned to the White House to speak on Consumer Privacy and Identity Theft; the President, the First Lady, the Secretary of the Treasury, and members of Congress attended, and the speech was broadcast on CSPAN. In December 2004, Mari’s ninety-minute PBS Television seminar, Identity Theft: Protecting Yourself in the Information Age,” aired nationwide. Both of her new books were featured as gifts for viewers who pledged support for their local PBS stations. The program will air again in March 2005. Mari consults with corporations and governmental agencies and provides professional speaking programs. She served on an identity theft task force with the office of the Los Angeles County District Attorney, and is a Sheriff Reserve on the High Tech Crime Unit of the Orange County, California Sheriff’s Department. She serves on the Advisory Board of the Identity Theft Resource Center, is serving a three-year term as an advisor to the State of California Office of Privacy Protection, and is a consultant for the National Office of Victims of Crime. A certified trainer for the State Bar of California, she is also a law professor, currently teaching at the University of California, Irvine. Mari has appeared on dozens of national TV programs, and has been interviewed on more than 250 radio shows. She has been featured in major newspapers and magazines, and her own articles have been published in legal journals and national magazines. Please find out more at www.identitytheft.org.Mari J. Frank is the author of 'From Victim To Victor: A Step By Step Guide For Ending the Nightmare of Identity Theft, Second Edition with CD', published 2005 under ISBN 9781892126047 and ISBN 1892126044.