The Weekly Newspaper of Inglewood
Herald Publications - El Segundo, Hawthorne, Lawndale & Inglewood Community Newspapers Since 1911 - (310) 322-1830 - Vol. 71, No. 8 - February 24, 2022
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Finance
Expert Tips To Protect
Yourself From Credit Scams
(BPT) - While credit scams have been around
forever, they’ve recently exploded in number.
According to Mint, from 2019 to 2020, the
number of identity theft reports went up by
113% and the number of reports of identity
theft by credit cards increased by 44.6%. The
amount of fraud by new credit card accounts
saw a 48% increase from 2019.
As more information is digital today, on top
of the increase in health and financial stressors,
scams designed to access your credit accounts
or personal information are on the rise.
Here are tips to help protect your credit
and personal information.
Use long, strong passwords unique to
each account or website - or use a password
manager to help create better passwords and
keep track of them. Change the password on
your home’s router. If you’re using the same
password for several accounts, or haven’t
changed passwords in a while, now’s the
time to clean up your digital act.
Having digital and physical backups for
your data protects you from not only losing
important information, but also from
ransomware attacks - when a hacker freezes
or destroys your data unless you pay them in
bitcoin. While this is more likely to happen
to businesses, it can give you peace of mind
to have your data backed up.
Consider both a Cloud backup as well as
on a physical hard drive - and/or printing
out vital information or documents.
Keeping an eye on your credit reports
alerts you to attempts to steal your identity,
such as someone opening an account in your
name. You can check any of the major credit
reporting companies for free once a year.
However, because identity theft is becoming
more frequent, you should check your credit
score more often. One tactic is to rotate
which company you request a report from,
requesting one every few months.
You can also check your credit with
VantageScore, which uses credit scoring
models that provide lenders and consumers
with highly predictive credit scores that are
easier to understand and actually score more
people. Access yours for free through the
providers at VantageScore.com.
Check your credit reports for:
• Credit accounts/debt that isn’t yours.
• Inquiries indicating a company accessed
your report without your permission.
• An address where you’ve never lived.
This could be a sign someone’s tried to use
your identity to open an account.
If you see items like these on your report,
contact the credit agency right away. A change
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