Would you go for months without checking your bank account balance? Would you ignore reviewing your monthly credit card statement under the assumption that all the charges on it were valid? If you’re like most people, you wouldn’t, and the same thinking applies should apply to your credit history. Why should you check your credit …
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Protect Your Credit During the Holiday Shopping Season
Javelin Strategy & Research’s 2018 Identity Fraud Study (its most current) revealed that the number of identity fraud victims increased by eight percent (rising to 16.7 million U.S. consumers) in 2017, a record high since the organization began tracking identity fraud in 2003. A similar study through the Federal Trade Commission found that credit card fraud involving …
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