Three Seconds: Ten Tips to Protect Against Identity Theft

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If you are an average reader, it took you three seconds or less to read the title to this post. In the same amount of time, a thief nabbed someone’s identity. Sadly, our always-connected digital world, one that brings us many exciting and wonderful things through technology, has also enabled our very financial essence, our pecuniary being, to be stolen.

Currently, as more and more of us work remotely, accessing the internet from our home where our firewalls may not be as impenetrable as our office, this purloining may become a greater problem.

What can you do to gird yourself against identity thieves? Here are ten tips to protect your “self”:

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PASSWORD PLEASE

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This is a chapter from CHAOS- The Manual Protect Yourself and Your ASSETS from Chaos by Michael A. Babiarz, JD & Ann M. Babiarz.

Tis always the season for CHAOS.  Here are a few tips and pointers for you if it happens strike you.

 

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(whispered) and the password is . .

[Guest post by Michael A. Babiarz — copyright 2016]

I’m old enough to remember the original incarnation of the game show Password. Airing from the early to late 1960s, it featured a voiceover announcer who told the TV viewers, in hushed tones, the answer to a particular puzzle that the contestant and his or her celebrity partner attempted to solve. On those few occasions when I was violently ill enough for my mother to allow me to miss school, I chose daytime game shows over soap operas for my TV viewing, as I nestled under a blanket on the living room sofa. Perhaps this is why I have mixed feelings whenever I see a television quiz show today. It brings back memories of being sick. I can’t enjoy lemon-lime soda either; Mom thought flat versions of this drink settled a grade schooler’s grumpy tummy. [Read more…]