Guarding your Social Security number is a very important part of protecting Your Online digital Identity

More and more consumers are buying more and more items over the internet, entering their personal and financial details over and over again. How secure are these sites? How well do they protect your personal details? With all the many sites you buy items from it only takes one of them to be compromised for your information to fall into the hands of criminals. So how do you protect yourself against being a victim?
There are a number of different ways you can utilise to help avoid other people using your details and finances when commiting fraud on the internet, along with protecting your details so they are never compromised is a good idea to track your credit scores as this will alert you about any unusual activity.

The following are a number of methods you can employ to protect yourself online and offline

1. Invest in a good quality cross cut shredder that can handle at least 8 pages concurrently and also shred old credit cards. Recent news reports have questioned the need for shredders since most households have their trash collected from outside their homes and taken to secure landfill sites. The problem with this is that it doesn"t prevent thieves driving down your street and stealing the trash from outside your door. This may sound strange but it happens and can be very lucrative for the thieves.

2. Secure your computer at home and only buy items while logged into a PC you know is up to date with all the latest security patches and also protected by anti virus

3. Monitor your credit score so you are aware of any changes - there are a number of companies that will monitor your scores daily and alert you of any changes


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