10 ways to protect your financial identity being used for someone else’s shopping spree

Author: BZ Riger-Hull

10 ways to protect your financial identity being used for someone else’s shopping spree

By BZ Riger-Hull, Certified Success Coach http://www.in-spiros.com

Someone impersonating you could be spending your hard-earned money.

Impossible! Not really, check, loan, and identity fraud are a real problem. In 2002, the federal trade commission estimated that identity fraud affected and estimated 3.3 million Americans; costing consumers $3.

8 billion and business $32.9 billion.

Here are 10 ways to protect yourself from having your financial identity used for someone else’s shopping spree:

1. Order your credit report once a year from each of the three credit bureaus to make sure that you are familiar with all of the reported transactions and that there isn’t any unusual activity,

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