10 Top Identity Theft Prevention Tips

The following pages detail the top 10 identity theft prevention tips. Whilst there are criminals and thieves trying to locate and steal from us, we need to do all we can to protect ourselves.

The pages of this section will explain how any individual can make themselves a harder target and therefore, hopefully, unappealing to a fraudster.

Remember, there are very few ways that an individual can guarantee anything in life and ensuring that you or I cannot be a target is not really possible. The only guarantee that we can think of is to have such a poor credit rating that no ID fraudster would want to impersonate us. Becoming a bankrupt does seem a little extreme to us though!

So here is our list of things that anyone can and should do to make themselves a harder target - the combat-identity-theft.com Top 10 Identity Theft Prevention Tips...

Tip 1: Buy and Use a crosscut paper shredder

Tip 2: Buy and Use a gel pen

Tip 3: Protect personal documents

Tip 4: Check your credit

Tip 5: Use strong PC protection software

Tip 6: Protect personal information

Tip 7: Protect cards and PIN numbers

Tip 8: Protect the deceased from identity theft

Tip 9: Understand simple website security measures

Tip 10: Safely dispose of personal computers

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