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Casual Articles - 10 Ways To Protect Your Financial Identity Being Used For Someone Else's Shopping Spree
There are in deed hundreds of articles on sales training and how to sell. Every company needs good sales training for their sales staff no matter what kind of products or services they offer. Unfortunately, many companies do not have adequate sales training and if you fail to train your salespeople you are also training them to fail.This is because you are not correcting the mistakes they make and they are getting into the habit of making them continually. In fact the
5. Ask your bank about its privacy policies and information practices. Find out the circums
The Georgia State Agency that oversees the collection and reporting of State income taxes deducted from payroll checks is: Department of Revenue Withholding Tax Unit 504 Trinity-Washington Bldg. 270 Washington Street Atlanta, GA 30334 404-417-2311 http://www.etax.dor.ga.gov/withholding.shtmlGeorgia requires that you use Georgia form "G-4, Employee's Withholding Certificate" instead of a Federal W-4 Form for Georgia
Impossible! Not really, check, loan, and identity fraud are a real problem. In 2002, the federal trade commission estimated that identity fraud affected and estimated 3.3 million Americans; costing consumers $3.8 billion and business $32.9 billion.
Here are 10 ways to protect yourself from having your financial identity used for someone else’s shopping spree:
1. Order your credit report once a year from each of the three credit bureaus to make sure that you are familiar with all of the reported transactions and that there isn't any unusual activity. Call (888) 5OPT-OUT to request to have your name removed from their marketing lists.
2. Cancel all unused credit card accounts, and make sure to keep a copy of your credit cards and the toll free contact numbers so you can report the card number immediately if it is lost or stolen.
3. Don't carry extra credit cards, your social security card or passports in the same wallet except when completely unavoidable.
4. Install a locked mailbox at your office or home to keep people from snatching your mail. Don't drop paid bills in the mailbox; take them to the post office to be mailed.
5. Ask your bank about its privacy policies and information practices. Find out the circumst
Isn't the year flying by? Have you done all the things you were going to do?My Great Grandma had a great perspective on why time passes so quickly as we get older. At ninety nine years of age she had life experience that was worth listening to. She said that when you are three years old another year is 1/3 of your life so it seems like a long time, when you are ninety nine another year is nothing so of course it seems to pass more quickly.The Christmas and New Y
Here are 10 ways to protect yourself from having your financial identity used for someone else’s shopping spree:
1. Order your credit report once a year from each of the three credit bureaus to make sure that you are familiar with all of the reported transactions and that there isn't any unusual activity. Call (888) 5OPT-OUT to request to have your name removed from their marketing lists.
2. Cancel all unused credit card accounts, and make sure to keep a copy of your credit cards and the toll free contact numbers so you can report the card number immediately if it is lost or stolen.
3. Don't carry extra credit cards, your social security card or passports in the same wallet except when completely unavoidable.
4. Install a locked mailbox at your office or home to keep people from snatching your mail. Don't drop paid bills in the mailbox; take them to the post office to be mailed.
5. Ask your bank about its privacy policies and information practices. Find out the circums
Two spanking new freesheets have hit London streets over the last month. One of them, The London Paper, is everywhere. Or its salesforce is anyway, thrusting copy after copy into the hands of passers by…even targeting drivers stuck in the evening pile-up.The London Paper is Rupert Murdoch’s first venture into free news. We've heard on the grapevine that this fella knows a little about the information market, so what’s going on? Is a trend developing around giving away
2. Cancel all unused credit card accounts, and make sure to keep a copy of your credit cards and the toll free contact numbers so you can report the card number immediately if it is lost or stolen.
3. Don't carry extra credit cards, your social security card or passports in the same wallet except when completely unavoidable.
4. Install a locked mailbox at your office or home to keep people from snatching your mail. Don't drop paid bills in the mailbox; take them to the post office to be mailed.
5. Ask your bank about its privacy policies and information practices. Find out the circums
In 2003, I moved to Little Rock, AR, and I was amazed with how helpful my new property manager was. If you haven't moved recently, you may have forgotten all the joy associated with having to arrange to shut off your utilities, phone, cable, etc. and arrange to have them hooked up at your new location. Then, you have to deal with mail forwarding, finding new service providers for all aspects of your life, and then deal with the move itself. When I made a cross-country move
3. Don't carry extra credit cards, your social security card or passports in the same wallet except when completely unavoidable.
4. Install a locked mailbox at your office or home to keep people from snatching your mail. Don't drop paid bills in the mailbox; take them to the post office to be mailed.
5. Ask your bank about its privacy policies and information practices. Find out the circums
Are you working as hard as you can in your area of expertise? Are you implementing creative ideas? Are you valuable to your clients? And now the tough question: Does the public know about you? If you’re like most business people, you answered “Yes” to the first three questions, and then perhaps hesitated on the last question and may have ultimately answered “No,” or sheepishly said “Well, not as much as I’d hoped.”Getting your name “out there” requires getting yourse
5. Ask your bank about its privacy policies and information practices. Find out the circumstances under which your bank would provide your account information to a third party.
6. Always save your credit card receipts to match against your monthly statement. Keep track of when your cards expire to make sure your new card arrives in the mail.
7. Never have your social Security number printed on your checks. Never put your account information on the outside of an envelope or on a postcard. Give your Social Security number only when absolutely necessary. Ask if you can use another type of identifying number whenever possible.
8. Review your phone bills and cellular phone bills each moth for any unauthorized use. And compare your ATM receipts and cashed checks with your periodic bank statements to check for unauthorized transfers or charges.
9. When filling out a loan or credit application, ask how the company disposes of them. When you receive one of those pre approved credit card offers in the mail make sure to cut it in small pieces before throwing it away.
10. When creating passwords or Personal Identification Numbers
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