PROTECT YOUR IDENTITY

Protecting your identity goes hand in hand with controlling your money. Identity theft occurs when a person steals you social security number, your credit account numbers and other personal information and begins making transaction on your name.

 

 

How to Avoid It

  • Verify the transactions that appear on your account statements.

  • Before throwing to the garbage documents with credit information or personal information, destroy them.

  • Check your mail. Don't leave letters in your mailbox for prolonged periods of time.

  • Check your credit history to detect unauthorized accounts.

  • Don't provide personal information such as your account number, social security or
    credit card account numbers over the phone to unknown parties.

If You Are a Victim of Identity Theft:

 

Contact any of the credit agencies and ask them to put a fraud alert on your report.

 

• EQUIFAX
  To apply for a credit report: 1-800-685-1111

 

• EXPERIAN
  To apply for a credit report: 1-888-397-3742

• TRANSUNION
  To apply for a credit report: 1-800-916-8800

• File a police report and get a copy of it.


• Contact the creditor of each account that has been falsified or opened under your name,
   in writing, and cancel them.

 

Learn more to prevent fraud.