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Consider These 8 Things to Help Avoid Identity Theft
- June 6, 2010, 12:49 am
1. Refrain from writing checks from your personal account to people which you are not familiar with. Instead, consider providing cash, a cashiers check or using Western Union. Although you might not use online banking, an unauthorized person can remove funds directly from your accounts using the Internet as the medium.
2. Before you dispose of account statements, you should be familiar with the following – identity thieves cannot go into your bedroom or where you work. Instead, they rummage your garbage bins looking for important data, and often, they discover what they were seeking, so get ahold of a paper shredding machine. You should also consider using a fight identity theft product.
3. Sign up for ‘paperless statements only’. Majority of financial institutions
