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The University of Colorado Boulder will hold a student workshop with help from the Colorado Bureau of Investigation on the prevention of identity theft in the college-age population on Oct. 10.
The workshop, hosted by CU Money Sense, is open to all CU-Boulder students and will be held in University Memorial Center room 245 from 1 to 2:30 p.m. Students planning to attend should email CUmoneysense@colorado.edu.
Colorado consistently ranks in the top 15 states for identity theft and fraud, with several Colorado cities ranking in the top 10 cities in the nation, according to Erin Foster, communication specialist with CU Money Sense, CU-Boulder?s financial education program for students.
?Our guest speaker from CBI will talk about the real-life impact that identity theft can have on students? lives,? said Foster. ?We want to heighten student awareness about this issue.?
Hazel Heckers of CBI will discuss why students are particularly appealing to identity thieves and what they can do to protect themselves.
Other upcoming CU Money Sense events include:
For more information about CU Money Sense visit http://bursar.colorado.edu/cumoneysense/.?
Contact:
Erin Foster, CU Money Sense, 303-492-0726
Greg Swenson, CU media relations, 303-492-3113
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