lifelock and companies of the sort are going to make a fortune on stupid people.
it's pretty simple to not get your id stolen.
shred your bills, cc offers, etc etc before you trash them
don't enter your CC number anywhere thats not on https or secured by verisign/etc online with a valid certificate.
DO NOT call in phone orders with your credit card!!! any $7 an hour rep can right down your number and take it home.
don't give your SSN out to anyone.
that's about it
0 Replies
Silverchild79
1
Reply
Fri 15 Feb, 2008 02:36 pm
@billcompugeek,
not that simple
I know my SSN is on file at my office, at our payroll dept's office, my insurance agent (I am my agent so that actually isn't an extra exposure for me but it is for you), and my mortgage broker. That's just off the top of my head. One dishonest cleaning person see's it was left out, credit card offer ends up in my neighbor's mail box, BOOM
**** happens, that's like saying auto insurance is for suckers, all you have to do is not wreck your car
0 Replies
briansol
1
Reply
Fri 15 Feb, 2008 03:59 pm
@billcompugeek,
well, if it gets picked up from the insurance office, you can sue them for all they got. They aren't supposed to leave things like that lying around. you could close them down if you can prove it was stolen there.
well, if it gets picked up from the insurance office, you can sue them for all they got. They aren't supposed to leave things like that lying around. you could close them down if you can prove it was stolen there.
Whole lot of truth there. That is pretty much my whole job now, is to insure that this kind of information does not get released. I really hope more businesses start accepting responsibility to there customers and there private information.
0 Replies
Fatal Freedoms
1
Reply
Sun 17 Feb, 2008 04:21 pm
@Sabz5150,
Sabz5150;53473 wrote:
I have all that protection... it's called bad credit.
A hostile split and eviction due to said split does that to ya.
lol. Yeah that works too!
0 Replies
Numpty
1
Reply
Wed 12 Mar, 2008 04:56 pm
@Sabz5150,
Sabz5150;53473 wrote:
I have all that protection... it's called bad credit.
A hostile split and eviction due to said split does that to ya.
lol my company (which shall remain nameless) used to store the SSN's of the employees in the systems, for notes and orders and such. After a few years there, I kind of gave up on the idea that my SSN was private.
I have all that protection... it's called bad credit.
A hostile split and eviction due to said split does that to ya.
Bad credit isn't that bad, I would imagine. Now you have an excuse to not borrow money. If you have kids, I guess that could hurt. If it weren't for my being married, I'd NEVER borrow money, period. Of course, I'd be living in a cave or worse, but what the hell. I've always hated the idea of borrowing money.:no:
0 Replies
Pinochet73
1
Reply
Fri 21 Mar, 2008 08:39 pm
@John cv,
John;54953 wrote:
lol my company (which shall remain nameless) used to store the SSN's of the employees in the systems, for notes and orders and such. After a few years there, I kind of gave up on the idea that my SSN was private.
Before 911, the military would disclose all sorts of personal stuff on its troops to anyone who wanted it. The excuse was that we were 'government property', and therefore had no right to privacy. Some of that has changed, thankfully. After all, if they now want the troops out, crawling around, killing terrorists, it wouldn't be a good idea to broadcast to the world where everyone is stationed.:no:
Stumble It!
Tweet This
Bookmark on Delicious
Share on Facebook
Share on MySpace