Safeguard your Identity
By KK on Feb 14, 2008 in Personal Finance
Do you have a US SSN? If you do, what are you doing to make sure that folks with less than honest intentions cannot have access to these precious numbers? It’s amazing how life is tied with a sequence of numbers. Anything we do with our SSN is recorded to the credit history in which banks, credit card companies and even prospective employers check us out to verify how worthy we are to have any business relationship with them. Keeping a good financial identity is more than just about money, it’s about maintaining a good name. Paying bills on time and shredding junk mail is not enough anymore because there are people who are just waiting for an opportunity to commit fraud charged on our name and have a luxurious time.
The good news: we aren’t sitting ducks! We can combat ID theft with pro-active measures such as credit monitoring, fraud alerts and other services from a life lock.
