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Ten Ways to Protect Your Family from Identity Theft

For the Mommas

Ten Ways to Protect Your Family from Identity Theft. Identity theft is increasingly a concern for families. With hackers tapping into major businessesí credit card information, and credit card companies issuing offers to your toddler, you never know where or how your information can fall into the wrong hands.

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Is Credit Karma Accurate? I Tested It & Here’s What I Learned

Penny Pinchin' Mom

It does this by: Allowing you to create a few prompts, such as alerts, whenever any changes are made to your credit rating Track your credit rating progress Prevent identity theft See some factors that are negatively affecting your credit score The information found on credit karma updates every 7 days, making it quite up-to-date.

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Tax Identify Theft: Keep Your Tax Return Safe

Saving Cents With Sense

Make sure you know who you are sharing your personal information with, especially your social security number (or EIN). And don’t be scared to ask questions about why they are requesting the information. If you don’t need paperwork that has your personal information on it, make sure that you shred it. Be cautious.

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Four Crazy Credit Card Scams

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

We live in an age where identity theft is a major concern. There is always a threat of your financial information getting into the wrong hands; whether you’re at the ATM, buying something online or swiping your card at a small shop. Phone Calls from Scammers Looking to “Verify” Your Personal Information. What happened?

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Lifestyle Strategies to Help Prevent a Heart Attack

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

Being a health nut (as you know), I like to stay up to date on the latest information regarding health issues. Related posts: 8 Ways to Prevent Identity Theft. A recent news report stated that heart attacks are the number one killer in the world. In fact, in most cases, heart attacks are preventable.

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Carnival of Financial Planning – Money Management Edition #231

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

History repeats and informs in market technologies. It’s modeled much like Michael Pollans Food Rules with many one-page rules that give short but useful tidbits of information. There are so many complex and obscure parts it’s hard to discern what’s going on. ” Financial Planning. Over the years, the types of IRAs.

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