Ways To Help Prevent Identity Theft
Here are a few suggestions to help you and your employees keep your identity and credit safe
1. Next time you order checks, have your initials printed on them instead of your full first name. If someone takes your checkbook, they will not know if you sign your checks with just your initials or your full name.
2. Do not sign the back of your credit cards. Instead put "Photo ID Required" or "Check Photo ID".
3. Don't pre print your phone or social security number on your checks. You can write it on the check if it is required.
4. Place the contents of your wallet on a photocopy machine. Copy both sides of each license, credit card, etc. Keep the copy in a safe, secure place. This way you will have a record of everything in your wallet should it be lost or stolen. Make 2 photocopies of your passport - keep one with you when you travel and store the other in a safe, secure place.
6. When you check out of a hotel that uses cards for keys, do not turn the "keys" in. Take them with you and destroy them. The key cards have information that you gave the hotel that may include personal data such as your name, address and credit card number.