Take Extra Steps to Protect Your Identity
There are many ways to protect your identity from theft, and below are some extra steps to prevent it.
Identity theft is a scary and troublesome headache. If you ever have to go through this, you know how terrifying it would be. Your whole life is in jeopardy, and your security is in question! Hackers and thieves steal your information from emails, to discard letters that contained your name, your address, your social security numbers, and your credit cards.
Below are five things you should consider taking extra steps to seal guard your identity
At the Gas Station
After using your credit card or your debit card, it is strongly recommended that your must take an extra minute after collecting your receipt to hit the “CLEAR” button at the pump. Your information is stored there for the next available customer in line.
Purchase a Shredder
There are so many different kinds of shredder in the market, but the best one should clearly mark “SECURITY MICRO CUT SHREDDER”. This machine will actually shred your paper into confetti. Thief can steal your identity even from mailing label on store catalog.
Have Two Different Passwords
Change your passwords every year, and have two different passwords for online transactions: one for the shopping site, and one for your bank account. Make your password unique, and include numbers. If your password is easy to guess such as your favorite color, your favorite food, you’re in jeopardy!
Use Your Credit Card
If you have credit card, use it for all your transactions whenever you can. By federal law, you are not liable for purchases that someone makes. It provides protection that debit card is not offered.
Sign Up for Credit Monitoring Service
For roughly about $10.00 a month, you can enlist the security of a Credit Monitoring Service Company. Before signing up though, make sure this company provides the service 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, and it will notify you in real time, not 90 days later in the report.
We can’t be too careful when it comes to identity theft. With technology keeps changing and getting better, we are constantly at risk if we don’t take extra steps to protect ourselves.
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Very informative and useful tips. It is always good to change passwords often, may be once in two months rather changing them a year.
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This is very helpful BC. A lot of hackers nowadays, excellent tips.
Good tips, Icy. One has to remain ever diligent to protect their identity! Never click on links posing as your bank or paypal. Type it into the browser and go that route instead.
Thanks for reminding us to be careful. I really pay attention on identity protection on my credit card, however it is become difficult when I have to give the data to insurance company for auto debet.
Helpful tips to protect from fraudsters.
Great tips to protect our identity, I’m interested with buying a shredder
….Great article. Thanks BC.
You’re right! We need to protect our identity for a personal security.
very useful tips..
I am so careful on this, even if I don’t have a shredder, I cut every single paper before I throw them in a bin.
Wish I’d known all this 6 years ago when the identity thieves wiped out my credit rating . . . . sniff sniff
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These are great tips and surely needed for today’s protection. Good post!