Do not become a victim of identity theft. Safeguard your name, address, date-of-birth, Social Security number and bank account numbers.
Criminals obtain your personal information by:
- Theft of your wallet or purse
- Sorting through your garbage
- Theft from your mailbox
- Information stored on your personal computer via the internet
- Obtaining your credit report
- Theft of your account numbers & passwords
- Forging your signature
- Reproducing your checks
- E-mail and internet scams
- Looking over your shoulder while you make a retail purchase or use the ATM machine