Some Tips to prevent you from becoming a victim of a financial fraud:

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  • Do not sign the back of your credit cards, instead put “photo ID required”.
  • When you are writing checks to pay on your credit card accounts, do not put the complete account number. Instead just put the last fourt numbers.  The credit card company knows the rest of the number and any one who might be handling your check as it passes through all the check processing channels wont have access to it.
  • Put your work phone number on your checks instead of your home phone.  If you have a PO box, use that instead of your home address. If you do not have a PO box, use your work address. Also, do not have your social security number printed on your checks, if you do that anyone can get it.
  • Place the contents of your wallet on a photo copy machine, do both sides of each license, credit card ect.  That way, you will know what you have in your wallet if it is stolen. You will also have all of your credit card numbers along with the 1800 numbers to cancel your accounts.
  • Immediately call the 3 national credit reporting organizations to place a fraud alert on your name and also call the Social Security fraud line number. The alert means any company that checks your credit knows your information was stolen, and they have to contact you by phone to authorize new credit.

Equifax- 1800-525-6285

Experian- 1-888-397-3742

Trans Union- 1-800-680-7289

Social Security Administration (fraud line) 1-800-269-0271

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