Having credit cards means you can be a target for criminals. It’s that simple. Today’s criminals have more ways of getting your vital financial information than ever.
This cautionary article tells one woman’s story. She is just one victim among thousands every year.
Here’s some tips (and a link) that the article gives to try and protect yourself.
Read the entire article here.
*Insist the police department get a subpoena for the email accounts involved, and pull all the records.
*Every time it happened, I would send a letter to the email addresses saying, “Stop using my information,” and I would copy the police department I am working with. Sometimes that scares off the suspect
* Call the local U.S. Postal Inspector’s office and see if you can get anyone to care there. The postal service is more likely to investigate widespread mail fraud than local police.
* File a complaint with the Internet Crime Complaint Center at www.ic3.gov
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