Mark Your Calendar to Attend the Center for Business Forensics Free Seminar on Identity Theft on April 2 at 7 p.m.

Rider University's Center for Business Forensics is hosting a free seminar on identity theft focusing on the major issues surrounding identity theft and fraud, and offering to the public insight into the widespread, varying and serious nature of identity theft.
Topics include:
- What is identity theft, and what forms does it take?
- Who is at risk?
- How can you protect yourself from it?
- What steps should you take if you are a victim of identity theft?
An expert panel of presenters will include:
1. Michelle Russell, Detective, Economic Crime Unit, Mercer County Prosecutor's Office
2. Kevin D. Hill, Vice President/Banking Center Manager II of Bank of America
3. Laurinda B. Harman, Ph.D., RHIA, Associate Professor and Chairperson of the Department of Health Information Management, Temple University
4. Bethany Schussler, Investigator for the Office of the Insurance Fraud Prosecutor, State of New Jersey
5. John LeMasney, Manager of Instructional Technology at Rider University
This public event will take place on Wednesday, April 2, 2008 at 7 p.m. in the Bart Luedeke Center Theater on Rider University's campus. Please bring your questions.An informative handout will be available.
RSVP by emailing sgordon@rider.edu by Friday, March 28, 2008.
The Identify Theft Workshop is led by Dr. J. Drew Procaccino, Associate Professor of Computer Information Systems, who has researched identity theft, biometrics and smart card technologies. He is a co-author of an extensive survey of smart-card technologies published by Elsevier Academic Press in Advances in Computers, Volume 60, Information Security.
Rider University's Center for Business Forensics (CBF) strives to help create a competent workforce and a robust knowledge base that can meet the challenges of dealing with corporate fraud and the many forms of computer crime. Located in the College of Business Administration, the CBF takes a multidisciplinary approach in providing instruction to undergraduate and graduate students, as well as in professional development programming for corporate, law enforcement and government organizations. For more information on Rider's Center for Business Forensics, visit us on the web at http://www.rider.edu/cbf.








