{"id":1102,"date":"2007-05-23T22:52:00","date_gmt":"2007-05-24T06:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.krunk4ever.com\/blog\/?p=1102"},"modified":"2007-05-23T22:52:35","modified_gmt":"2007-05-24T06:52:35","slug":"an-easy-guide-to-protecting-your-identity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.krunk4ever.com\/blog\/2007\/05\/23\/an-easy-guide-to-protecting-your-identity\/","title":{"rendered":"An easy guide to protecting your identity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Speak of the devil. Just a few days ago I mentioned check fraud and secure ink. Today in the mail, I received from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.staplesspeakeasy.com\/index.php\">Staples SpeakEasy<\/a>, a program where they send you new products for free before they launch in hopes to get some feedback. I&#8217;ve gotten cd wallets, staplers, mousepad, etc. This month they&#8217;re featuring an identity protection theme which included 2 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.staples.com\/webapp\/wcs\/stores\/servlet\/StaplesProductDisplay?langId=-1&#038;storeId=10001&#038;productId=110079&#038;prodCatType=0&#038;catalogId=10051\">Uni-ball 207 Retractable Gel-Ink Pens<\/a> and an &#8220;An easy guide to protecting your identity.&#8221; booklet.<\/p>\n<p>The gel pens feature a &#8220;specially formulated ink &#8211; helps prevent check fraud&#8221;. I had mentioned about &#8220;secure&#8221; ink a few days ago.<\/p>\n<p>I was about to throw the booklet away when I noticed it was endorsed if not partially written by <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Frank_Abagnale\">Frank Abagnale<\/a>. If that doesn&#8217;t ring the bell, it&#8217;s the character that Leonardo DiCaprio played in Catch Me If You Can. He&#8217;s also the real guy that cashed $2.5 million in fraudulent checks.<\/p>\n<p>Flipping through the book, I was shocked to find it would be extremely useful to someone who&#8217;s not familiar with identity theft and how to protect oneself. The booklet has about 40 pages and if I wasn&#8217;t lazy, I&#8217;d scan the booklet for you to check it out.<\/p>\n<p>The main topics he brings up is:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Checking your credit report three times a year<\/li>\n<li>Shredding outdated personal information<\/li>\n<li>Using tricky passwords<\/li>\n<li>Installing firewalls and antivirus software<\/li>\n<li>Taking in your mail as soon as it&#8217;s delivered<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Of course Staples takes this opportunity to introduce you to their secure ink pens, their microcut shredder, and even their security software bundle.<\/p>\n<p>Another interesting section is how to detect when your identity has been compromised. He gives examples of how to go through a credit report, how to only use 1 standard name for everything you apply for, and question why a certain individual\/company would want your your social security number, etc.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speak of the devil. Just a few days ago I mentioned check fraud and secure ink. Today in the mail, I received from Staples SpeakEasy, a program where they send you new products for free before they launch in hopes to get some feedback. I&#8217;ve gotten cd wallets, staplers, mousepad, etc. This month they&#8217;re featuring &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.krunk4ever.com\/blog\/2007\/05\/23\/an-easy-guide-to-protecting-your-identity\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;An easy guide to protecting your identity&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13,7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.krunk4ever.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1102"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.krunk4ever.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.krunk4ever.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.krunk4ever.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.krunk4ever.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1102"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.krunk4ever.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1102\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.krunk4ever.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.krunk4ever.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.krunk4ever.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}