Mona Terry

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96 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jun 2026 last heard 25 Jun

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NerdWallet's Smart Money Podcast · Stop Worrying About Your Financial Advisor and Start Finding the Right One · 25 Jun 2026 podcast

Someone had to use their child's social security number for work.

And so they were denied those benefits because it showed that the child was applying, even though the child is a minor.

Yeah, people are talking about, they feel angry, they feel frustrated.

I think the one that's hardest for us to hear is scam victims feeling like it was their fault.

They felt like they were to blame for what happened.

Like you said, it's not just the financial impact, but it's really that serious emotional impact.

We know the more serious the identity crime is, the more serious the emotional impact is.

So we know that people who are facing criminal identity theft, for example, face higher rates of depression.

It definitely has a serious emotional impact.

the biggest things are freeze your credit so no one can open new financial accounts in your name set up any type of protective kind of monitoring that you can on your accounts you know you can set an alert for a dollar limit over a certain dollar limit kind of anything that you could do to regularly review your statements unfortunately a lot of it is on the individual but staying on top of those setting up alerts to help automate that freezing your credit using unique passwords and

setting up multi-factor authentication, where you get that text code right to your phone, or using an authenticator app, setting up pass keys, making sure those are unique for each account.

And really taking the time to do that with all your accounts.

I think that we had a victim who had set up multi-factor authentication for all of their new accounts, but they had an older account that they had not even thought about doing that for, and the thief was able to get into that account and they were locked out.

So...

Really just making sure that everything you're doing for all of your new accounts, you're going back and looking at all your old accounts as well.

Thanks, Mike.

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