The holiday season is huge for retail sales, and it's big for pickpockets and identity thieves too. The thieves are interested in your credit cards and personal identification, not the cash. ID's are more valuable. Identity thieves will steal your wallets mail, and trash; and scam you by telephone, mail, and the internet. They want your good name.
Some Holiday Tips and New Year's Resolutions for you to put into practice to manage your identity are:
- Protect your wallet or purse at all times. Men, carry your wallet in your front pocket when shopping. Ladies, put the strap of your purse over your head. Don't EVER leave your purse unattended and unattached to you, for example, in a shopping cart, on a counter, or on the front seat of your car even when you are close by, for example, pumping gas!
- Purge your wallet or purse of ALL identification cards showing your social security



