Simple Ways to Protect Yourself From Identity Theft
Protecting yourself from identity theft is not entirely possible if you want to be covered 100%. There is always the possibility of a breach in your protection which can leave you disgruntled, bitter and untrusting.
Subscribing to identity protection programs can be quite expensive. Despite the additional cost, this does not guarantee an ironclad protection. You can still be a victim of identity theft. However, you can make yourself less visible to identity thieves and you can do so by these simple things
1. Tear up your private records and personal financial statements before you throw them out of the trash. These documents or correspondences should be destroyed before they even reach your bins. Tear them up or shred them, the choice is yours.
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read moreIdentity Theft – A Very Real Problem
Identity fraud is a serious problem that is increasing each year and with technology moving ahead so fast with access to the internet, there are so many criminals out there with the resources to log into people’s personal details. There can be nothing more frightening when you receive a bank statement and find charges for items you have never even seen, let alone bought.
There are many people these days who use online banking. Many have never had a problem but there’s also those who have and found to their horror a lot of money has gone from their account. Many use online banking systems safely but for those who are not a hundred percent sure how to do this, contact your bank and ask them to go through it with you and take careful note of the do’s and don’ts, better to be safe than sorry.
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read moreHow to Help Avoid Identity Theft with These 12 Tips
Identity theft is a very lengthy and ugly ordeal. It is next to impossible to reverse and it can take several years before Credit Company’s stop bothering you constantly with collection calls. In addition, it may cost you thousands of dollars to fight.
How does identity theft occur It occurs when an identity thief obtains your social security number, bank account numbers, birthdate and other pertinent information. After they steal your information, they can easily order your birth certificate online. All numbers lead to you.
The following 12 tips are taken from my latest book, Shop for a Day with Jaci Rae – How to Get Almost Anything for Free and can help save your identity and your sanity.
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read moreAre You Really Safe From Identity Theft
Can you imagine how it must feel to be arrested for a crime you didn’t commit What would it feel like to receive a phone call from the credit card company demanding payment of your outstanding balance, when you know you didn’t use your credit card at all in the last month If you become a victim of identity theft, you may just get to learn for yourself how it would feel.
Some people have described identity theft as the perfect crime, because potentially every single person can be a victim. There are already millions of victims being discovered every year, and the sooner you start taking steps to stop it happening to you, the better. Don’t take the risk of thinking it will be okay – once your identity is stolen, it can take years to get your life back on track again.
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read moreDo You Really Need to Give Your Social Security Number
Identity theft is becoming more and more menacing, and destructive to the entire society as a whole, as more and more people become unwilling victims to this crime. It is as yet to become the fastest growing white collar crime not only in the United States but in any parts of the globe. Being a victim of this crime requires that you spend months, and even years, undoing the damage that the identity theft has done. It can leave its victims feeling angry, frustrated and sometimes, hopeless in their attempt to fix their credit score and regain their lost finances. The experience of the whole identity theft crime can leave a victim traumatized in the most unimaginable ways possible.
Most identity theft crimes are initiated when the criminal is able to gain hold of another person’s credit card number. This is the most common and easiest form of identity theft there is. This happens when identity thieves scour different garbage bins for credit card statements, promotional offers, pre-approved credit card applications and even birthday cards. The garbage, even in its worst state, can be a gold mine for identity thieves as people are known to throw away their crucial documents without bothering to tear them apart or shredding them. The papers are left intact, sometimes crumpled, but when these are straightened out, everything that an identity thief needs to steal another person’s identity are there for the public to see.
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