{"id":85744,"date":"2009-12-16T18:38:34","date_gmt":"2009-12-16T23:38:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blisstree.com\/articles\/home-safety-identity-protection\/"},"modified":"2009-12-16T18:38:34","modified_gmt":"2009-12-16T23:38:34","slug":"home-safety-%e2%80%93-identity-protection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/85744","title":{"rendered":"Home Safety \u2013 Identity Protection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While most identity theft takes place when you\u2019re shopping at the store or opening phishing emails, there are other ways that identity thieves use to collect the information they need. Protecting your identity should start at home. <\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.blisstree.com\/files\/2009\/12\/identitytheftprevention.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-right: 0px;border-top: 0px;border-left: 0px;border-bottom: 0px\" height=\"164\" alt=\"identity theft prevention\" src=\"http:\/\/www.blisstree.com\/files\/2009\/12\/identitytheftprevention_thumb.jpg\" width=\"244\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a> <\/p>\n<p>People who swipe mail from mailboxes to help them in their quest to steal a specific person\u2019s identity aren\u2019t just a Lifetime movie phenomenon. I know of at least one person who had her identity assumed by a person who lived nearby. The person went as far as checking her mailbox every day before she got home and swiping anything that could help build the false identity. She was able to swipe a library card and check out a big stack of books and DVDs and stole quite a few other pieces of mail, too. If you have a mailbox that is accessible to anyone who bothers to yank open the little door on the front, you may want to consider getting a box with a lock on it that has a mail slot for deliveries to keep your mail more secure.<\/p>\n<p>Another place identity thieves target is the trash can. If you have any bank account information, credit card statements or other documents with sensitive information on them, run them through the shredder before tossing them out. You should also think twice about recycling your junk mail. If it looks like a credit card offer or anything else the least bit sensitive, shred it.<\/p>\n<p>A final thing to consider is putting any items with sensitive information on them away when someone is visiting, even if you love and trust the visitor. You don\u2019t want to find out about someone\u2019s new life of crime the hard way. <\/p>\n<p>Do you have any tips for things you can do at home to protect your identity?<\/p>\n<p>Photo: SXC<\/p>\n<p>Post from: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blisstree.com\">Blisstree<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.blisstree.com\/articles\/home-safety-identity-protection\/\">Home Safety &ndash; Identity Protection<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While most identity theft takes place when you\u2019re shopping at the store or opening phishing emails, there are other ways that identity thieves use to collect the information they need. Protecting your identity should start at home. People who swipe mail from mailboxes to help them in their quest to steal a specific person\u2019s identity [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":138,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-85744","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85744","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/138"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85744"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85744\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}