Winn’s ID Theft

My Identity, according to Mellon Bank was stolen. I own some Disney stock and they lost a box of backup archive tapes with all of my details (and a ton of other folks, too.)

They sent me this letter telling me to watch out for bad guys.

Best of all, they subscribed me to a credit monitoring service for free. I have always used one, to the tune of $10 per month, but now I can cancel that and use this one.

No matter: YOU, and everyone should do two things:

1. Monitor your credit with a service. It will tell you within minutes if something has changed.

2. Write to all three credit agencies once a year and get your free credit report. Federal law makes them do this. 30-50% contain errors.

3. Check your online $-everything weekly.

OK, three things.  Do them, though. Please.

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