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Too Small to Fall Victim to Identity Theft? Think Again.

Identity theft doesn’t just happen to big companies; it’s a problem for small operations, too.

A few years ago, Joe Palumbo, owner of Minneapolis-based Ice Dam Removal Guys, started getting angry calls about shoddy work. He was dumbfounded. There was no record of him servicing these people. Negative online reviews about his company’s ice removal services also began popping up from customers that weren’t his.

After some digging, he learned that

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