Hi. My name in Mike Byrne and welcome to the Identity Theft Prevention Center.  Identity Theft is growing at a very fast rate.  The reasons are simple - opportunity and low risk to thieves.  You need to take steps to protect your identity from theft.  Most of these protection steps are very simple and common sense can go a long way to protecting your identity.

This site has been developed because I believe the internet is turning into a dangerous place for the unwary. There are too many scams and tricks being use to trick people into revealing identity information to thieves. I am deeply saddened by this. I have been using the internet since before the first browser. I have used it everyday for close to two decades. I want to continue using it without losing my identity to theft.

I am a computer professional. I was Director of Information Technology for one of the world’s largest pharmaceutical companies. I was Chief Information Officer at a non-profit organization. I currently am a computer systems consultant to large companies. I have been working with computers and computer systems for over 26 years.

This site has been created to help people who are not computer experts to protect themselves from identity theft and  computer scams. There will be a lot of information, but I am also creating simple checklists that will summarize a lot of the information presented. My goal is to allow you to quickly take steps to protect your identity from theft. I plan to keep things as simple as possible.