Security While On Long Trip
There have been a number of threads about securing your home while away on a trip. My question is what do you do about securing your important documents like income tax records, bank statements, and ...
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derh20 wrote:
The best solution to your problem is to put a "Credit Freeze" on with all 3 credit reporting agencies. that would prevent anyone from trying to get credit with your stolen information. Of course you could not get credit either. You would have to cancel the credit freeze with each agency for a given period of time. there may be a cost, depending on the state you live in. this can be done quickly and easily on the web. Just a suggestion.
+1 on the credit freeze. North Carolina law allows us to do this for free.
It has the extra benefit of being able to tell retail cashiers trying to push their credit card on me that my credit is frozen. Once, with a really pushy one, I let him try and, as expected, his system was unable to check my credit score, so he could not issue the card. :-)
