How Much do You Know About Protecting Yourself From Identity Theft?

The goal of this blog is to help you protect your social security number (SSN), inoculating yourself against scams, and teach you about the other simple easy steps that you can take to protect yourself from identity thieves.

Think you are already immune? So did 1 in 3 other individuals who have already become victims of ID theft over the past. Make a commitment to yourself to learn all you can and start taking more steps to protect yourself from ID theft.

So are you doing every thing you can to protect yourself? – Most likely not!

Everyone knows someone who has had their identity stolen. Or maybe you have been a victim yourself. So you are careful with your SSN & credit cards but are you careful enough? Last year 10 million people did not do enough to protect themselves and they became victims of identity theft. What was it that you know or did that kept you from becoming a victim of ID theft and allowed someone else to become a victim? Likely nothing - you were just lucky so far – Why do I say that? Because a Privacy & American Business survey found that a majority of individuals do not know how identity thieves work or how to protect themselves.

If you are like most people you are asking yourself - what don’t I know? – I have heard about scams on the news, read an article about shredding, what else can there be? – there are lots more things almost 60 things you can do: simple things that you can do or in some cases not do to protect your SSN, bank accounts, drivers license information, there are actually ways to inoculate yourself against all scams past, present, and almost any future scams that these creative criminal can come up with.

You probably have heard about a few of these things like shredding and not carrying your SSN in your wallet but there are may more things you should do and the ID thieves are always finding new ways to steal and use victim info – Did you know someone could steal your information and buy a house in Florida, get out of a speeding ticket in Arizona or have a baby in California? People have done all of these things. If this surprises you may want to read on/ listen in again next week because I will be providing the latest information on how identity thieves steal information, the newest and most creative scams you don’t want to fall for and the many other steps that you can take to reduce your risk of identity theft - unless of course that is you want to become a victim of identity theft.