Make sure your purse is closed, though, or they could still steal your wallet.Ĩ. This way your purse cannot be easily snatched by a prospective thief. When you go to the grocery store and you place your purse in the top of the cart (where mothers sometimes place their small children), clip your purse with the seat belt provided. I also carry a photocopy of my passport when I travel, either here or abroad.ħ. You will know what you had in your wallet and all of the account numbers and phone numbers necessary to cancel. Do both sides of each license, credit card, etc. Place the contents of your wallet on a photocopy machine. Put a stop payment on all of the missing checks. If you have your checks stolen, notify your bank. NEVER have your social security number printed on your checks.ĥ. Box, use that instead of your home address. If you must put your phone number on your checks, put your work phone number instead of your home number. If someone takes your checkbook, they will not know if you sign your checks with just your initials or your first name, but your bank should know how you sign your check.Ĥ.
The next time you order checks, omit your first name and have only your initials and last name put on them. The credit card company knows the rest of the number and anyone who might be handling your check as it passes through all the check processing channels won’t have access to it.ģ. When you are writing checks to pay on your credit card accounts, DO NOT put the complete account number on the memo line. Instead put “photo ID required” or CID.Ģ. Do not sign the back of your credit cards. Please keep this list of THINGS TO DO in a safe place, or somewhere you can readily refer to it.ġ. I would like to pass on that information to all of you. Some of the things on the list were from other persons who had their belongings stolen. Since then I have learned many things to do in case your wallet, purse, or checkbook is ever stolen. Of course, all the contents were gone, too. When I went to check out, I discovered my purse was gone. I thought my purse was safe, because I had it covered up with my coat. Approximately eight months ago I had my purse stolen out of my shopping cart in a department store.
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