Getting information while you withdraw money from a cash machine is a lot easier than you expect as this video will show. There are 2 important things to remember:
1. If there is anything protruding where you place in your cash card on a cash machine, never use it.
2. Always hide your pin number when logging it in.
In case you need any more incentive to contribute as much as possible to your retirement plans here’s a video interview with Andy Eschtruth from the Center for Retirement Research at Boston College.
Want to know how easy it is for someone to skim and clone your credit card? This video will show you that your credit card isn’t nearly as safe as yu might have thought it was:
If you needed a reason why you shred all documents that have personal identifying information on them before throwing them out in the trash, this video will show it:
A wonderful Saturday Night Live skit that makes the point so simply that you just have to laugh – Don’t but stuff you can’t afford. If people would follow this one simple piece of advice, their finances would be in a whole lot better shape.
Many of you may be familiar with payperpost which pays bloggers to post articles with links on their blogs. They also pay to have people post videos talking about their product.
This video is a payperpost made for a credit card consolidation company and you will see that the person who made the video doesn’t handle her credit cards too well. While I’m tempted to comment on the whole credit card consolidation issue of trading credit card debt for home equity, a bigger worry is that she has set herself up for identity theft. There are a couple of frames where it may be possible to decipher her credit card number as she is flashing it on the video. Not a smart move at all…view for yourself
If you have ever been in credit card debt and that magical day comes when all the debt has been paid off, using scissors to cut up the credit cards can be a little anti-climatic. You don’t want to leave those cards in little pieces, you want them decimated into a pile of plastic shreds. If that is your feeling, you’ll love this video:
Now that is what I call satisfying destruction of credit cards and identity theft safe to boot!