Saving Advice: Never pay someone to protect your identity
Posted on June 05th, 2008 in Financial Literacy, In the Blogosphere
Jennifer Derrick at Saving Advice has this article: Never pay someone to protect your identity.
A snippet:
The problem with any sort of “identity protection” is that nothing is fool proof. Protecting yourself at the credit bureau level only works as long as the agency issuing the credit actually goes through the bureaus. If they don’t, they have no idea that you’ve put protective measures in place so they may go ahead and issue credit to an impostor.
But she’s got lots of tips on how to reduce your risk.
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June 5th, 2008
Thanks you for the mention. It’s always greatly appreciated. Use common sense and reduce the risk as much as possible on your own and you’ll be far safer than paying for someone else to do it.