Identity Theft

Telehealth is a win-win for providers and patients. But you should know the privacy and security risks to protect your sensitive patient data.

Learn to recognize the signs of social media scams to protect yourself and your family members from becoming victims of fraud.

From banking information and email passwords to photos of memorable holidays and life events, our electronic devices store (and in some cases share) many pieces of valuable and sensitive data. Not sure if the information on your devices is as safe and secure as you’d like it to be? VA's Privacy Service recommends giving your devices a privacy checkup.

During the coronavirus pandemic, Americans have turned to accessing critical health care and financial services online and on their mobile devices. VA’s Office of Information and Technology (OIT) has security tools to protect Veterans’ personal information online.

Veterans have multiple resources available for the latest COVID-19, or coronavirus, information. Here are several resources.

Privacy is everyone’s business, and VA leads the charge in protecting data for Veterans, their beneficiaries, and VA employees.

Veterans are twice as likely to lose money to fraud because of identity theft, phishing, impostor scams, and investment, loan, or donation deceptions.

Investment fraud comes in many shapes and sizes and unfortunately these fraudsters sometimes target Veterans. The director of the Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) Office of Investor Education and Advocacy, Lori Schock, talked about these topics in a special extended edition of VA News. In the interview, Schock discussed important first steps that Veterans should take to build wealth over time, ways Veterans can minimize the risk of investing and details signs to look for in case an investment is really a scam.

Beware of a telephone scam where someone is calling Veterans and requests money to process their claims for benefits.

Here are on how you can shop safely this season and keep from getting more than you bargained for.

VA would never ask Veterans for credit card information or offer a $100 rebate through the Veterans Choice Program phone line. Help us get the word out about this potential attempt to impersonate VA's phone line.

VA’s More Than a Number identity protection program educates Veterans and their beneficiaries on how to protect themselves from identity theft.