April 19, 2005

Informit.com has a really great article about protecting yourself from identity theft. Here are some tips from the article: clean up your wallet and remove your social security card as well as any credit cards you don't need, protect your mailbox with a lock, keep only a minimum amount in your checking account, do not use the same PIN or password for different accounts, photocopy the front and back of all your credit cards and keep the photocopy in a safe place, be extremely careful about who you give your social security number to, have yourself removed from pre-approved credit card solicitations, sign up for the national do-not-call registry, check your credit report from all three bureaus at least once a year, and make sure your annual Social Security statement contains correct contribution amounts.

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The Informit.com Article