Check this out....

Preventing ID Theft, Block Credit Reports, Consumer Alert—AARP



Who knew, eh?

MZ


eta: I think we need to do this for our kids as well because one of our teens at home had her checking account hacked into recently. The unauthorized charged was for $3 at an airport she'd never been to, hadn't even traveled close to the time of the charge. Does anyone know of a less expensive way to do this freeze thing?
TIA,
MZ

I pay for a service to monitor my credit and I can put a freeze on my credit report. Meaning, no one call pull my credit report without my permission. So, fraudulent stuff is tougher to get because they can't pull a credit report.

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Proud to say I haven't shopped at a Wal-Mart since Sept 2003

Had this happen to my checking acct. last year-to the tune of $9000. We had just gotten our tax refund. They were taking out weird amts.-like $1832, $1956, etc. Thankfully our bank caught wind of the situation and called us. The money was back in our acct. the afternoon it was caught. What was frustrating is that there were no charges made against the perp-apparently, it was too small an amount to bother with. Hellooooo????I now almost check my acct. online daily. Scary stuff! We work so hard for everything we have-just pisses me off that there are some bottom feeders thinking they can get a free lunch!

We check our bank accts several times a day and pay for a premier anti-identity theft service.
When is what we do enough?
We have employed/paid for the top rated anti-personal theft security service and they still missed dd's prob.
What's a citizen to do?!

I'd say it's more than enough already. There's careful and then there's paranoid. Checking your bank accounts several times each day in case somebody stole your money is paranoid. Not only does that kind of fear interfere with your enjoyment of life, it's counterproductive. You're actually increasing your odds of theft by accessing your bank accounts excessively. Your bank can set up special safety measures for you to protect your money. You should go talk to them and free yourself so you can live a normal life.

But that is her choice and only she would know if it interferes with her "enjoyment of life".,,,and of course living " a normal life" is all in how you look at it.

Rude, rude post!!!

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Nobody can make you feel inferior without your consent.

E. Roosevelt

Ha! That was actually pretty mellow for cougarskies
I agree with her though, one really should not let this kind of thing overwhelm them.

cj/

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I was walking home one night and a guy hammering on a roof called me a paranoid little weirdo. In morse code. -Emo Phillips

I agree on both!! I don't think cougarskies was rude at all.