Protect Your Good Credit

Continuing threats and exposures of personal data which leads to the theft of individual identities, brings one major thought to mind. The best protection against identity theft is to limit the accessibility to our personal data. Since businesses and government are taking their time about doing that, try limiting access by limiting the number of accounts you have out there.

Find the one credit card that you can use anywhere and keep it. Close all other accounts, including store cards. Saving 10% on a one-time purchase is not worth the risk of giving your data to yet another source.

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