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When credit card security is at stake Limit Public Wi-Fi Use

You’ve heard it a dozen times, but few people take this warning to heart. Public wi-fi is not secure. Hackers can scan for data on your hard drive while you wait. Those trips and stalls in your connection? Those may be in response to hacking attempts on your hard drive. Never assume a trusted connection from a previous session is equally stable, secure or not suspect to credit card hacking attempts.

The solution is to plan work like writing or researching, reading or watching downloaded video in such places. Take note of individuals checking out your screen. Never conduct credit card transactions in public wi-fi environments.

Credit Card Security

When credit card security is at stake, Close Thy Mouth, a closed trap is the best policy. Spending habits involve credit cards and people talk about their shopping plans all the time. Don’t practice blabbermouth attacks in line for coffee concerning office politics or detail the lawsuit against the company for 7 blocks while a pedestrian follows close behind.It’s astonishing how many people today improperly take discretion for granted in circumstances that do not warrant it.

Use Gift Cards

Frequent spending destinations for credit cards such as fast food, gas stations, local services and stores can be secured. Casual chat over years means someone at that store knows a lot about you. They probably know where you work and how much you make, and when you are gone and what hours you leave for work and come home. If they innocently chat to a co-worker, your credit card security and identity theft risk is is in play.

Transfer Balances to New Credit Accounts

What thieves don’t like is being outsmarted. Those old unshredded files with your expense reports and credit card receipts? From the old company you used to work for that threw everything in the dumpster before the CEO filed Chapter 11? Someone got hold of and kept those credit card records, you can be sure.

Downsize Your Credit

If your current credit card companies don’t want to reset your credit limit lower, transfer the balance to a credit card with a lower overall credit limit. Theoretically, credit card companies should be offering incentives to cardholders to shrink their debt with balance transfer offers to credit card accounts with lower interest rates.

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When credit card security is at stake Limit Public Wi-Fi Use

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Use Gift Cards

Transfer Balances to New Credit Accounts

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