Protecting Your Identity
Posted by Takara Alexis at 11/3/2010 8:41 AM 
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Categories: SEO Tips
Tags: collection agencies identity theft commercial debt collection agencies
Protecting Your Identity
by Takara Alexis
It only takes one stolen check from your mail box and some acetone to empty your entire bank account. A piece of cellophane tape covers the front and back of your signature, and then the check in place in a pan of acetone. This is a process known as "check washing" and it takes only about a half hour to rinse everything except the printer's ink from the check. The things that remain on the check are your tape covered signature and the printer-inked information.
Invest in a safe pen. A certain type of ink-the kind in gel pens made by Uni-ball-resists acetone and various solutions used in check washing. Rather than writing your whole account number on signed checks, write only some digits, such as the last four numbers of the credit card account. Or you can write down none at all. Companies routinely ask you to put your entire account number, but there is no need to abide.
Do not put phone numbers on your checks so you can further assure your privacy. If it's necessary that you list one, write down your work number. Also it's a good idea to get a Post Office Box number and use it rather than your street address.
You should never display your Social Security Number or driver's license number on any check. To prevent new checks from being taken from your incoming mail, make it known that the delivery needs to be sent to your bank for later pick up and not your home.
Stealing your identity isn't hard, but stealing your face is. Therefore, you should take advantage of an option given by certain credit card companies and retail stores that sponsor their own plastic: Your photo can be attached to your credit card.
If a company asks for your maiden name or your the maiden name of your mother, let them know that you also want to use another password in addition to that. Also you can fabricate a maiden name or pick a fake birthday-one that you can remember easily, of course.
by Takara Alexis
It only takes one stolen check from your mail box and some acetone to empty your entire bank account. A piece of cellophane tape covers the front and back of your signature, and then the check in place in a pan of acetone. This is a process known as "check washing" and it takes only about a half hour to rinse everything except the printer's ink from the check. The things that remain on the check are your tape covered signature and the printer-inked information.
Invest in a safe pen. A certain type of ink-the kind in gel pens made by Uni-ball-resists acetone and various solutions used in check washing. Rather than writing your whole account number on signed checks, write only some digits, such as the last four numbers of the credit card account. Or you can write down none at all. Companies routinely ask you to put your entire account number, but there is no need to abide.
Do not put phone numbers on your checks so you can further assure your privacy. If it's necessary that you list one, write down your work number. Also it's a good idea to get a Post Office Box number and use it rather than your street address.
You should never display your Social Security Number or driver's license number on any check. To prevent new checks from being taken from your incoming mail, make it known that the delivery needs to be sent to your bank for later pick up and not your home.
Stealing your identity isn't hard, but stealing your face is. Therefore, you should take advantage of an option given by certain credit card companies and retail stores that sponsor their own plastic: Your photo can be attached to your credit card.
If a company asks for your maiden name or your the maiden name of your mother, let them know that you also want to use another password in addition to that. Also you can fabricate a maiden name or pick a fake birthday-one that you can remember easily, of course.
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