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Protecting Yourself Against Identity Theft
State Guide: Credit Freezing Currently, the following states allow consumers who have not yet been victims of identity theft to put a credit freeze on their accounts at the credit bureaus: California Colorado Connecticut Delaware Florida Illinois Indiana [as of September 1, 2007] Kentucky Louisiana Maine Maryland [as of January 1, 2008] Minnesota Montana [as of July 1, 2007] Nebraska [as of September 1, 2008] Nevada New Hampshire New Jersey New Mexico [as of July 1, 2007] New York North Carolina North Dakota [as of July 2007] Oklahoma Pennsylvania Rhode Island Tennessee [as of January 1, 2008] Utah [as of September 1, 2008] Vermont West Virginia [as of July 2007] Wisconsin Wyoming [as of January 1, 2008] The following states allow only victims of ID theft to use a credit freeze: Arkansas [as of January 1, 2008] Hawaii Kansas Mississippi South Dakota Texas Washington
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