Today's Tip ~ Friday, March 18, 2011 (cell phones, letter, stealing, name)
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Hi, kids! Did everyone have a good St. Patrick's Day? Hard to believe it's Friday already. Woo-hoo! Today's Tip may help to save you the grief of someone stealing your credit or debit card info.
When you use your credit or debit card in an ATM or at the gas pump, beware of card skimmers! Skimmers can install a fake front on the card slot, which reads the magnetic stripe, and place a tiny video camera above it to record your PIN when you enter it. You can do two things to protect yourself from these skimmers:
Tug on the card-reading slot to make sure there are no loose parts;
Use one hand to shield the other as you enter your PIN.
I've been doing the "shield-the-hand" thing when I enter my PIN for years, but have never tugged on the slot to see if it's loose.
These two simple steps can help protect your card and your dough! Be careful out there, everyone.
Yeah, I have that problem too. But I solved it by spelling a name from the alphabet on the letters. So for satx, I'd just go s7 a2 t8 x9. Too many numbers to remember these days. Anyhow, back to the matter at hand--great tips Pam. I turn into a "taigzilla" if I catch someone getting a little too close when I am at a bank machine.
Yeah, I have that problem too. But I solved it by spelling a name from the alphabet on the letters. So for satx, I'd just go s7 a2 t8 x9. Too many numbers to remember these days. Anyhow, back to the matter at hand--great tips Pam. I turn into a "taigzilla" if I catch someone getting a little too close when I am at a bank machine.
728956 ....looks like a zipcode I actually remember my zip usually!
A woman had her purse stolen with the cell phone in it. The thief looked at the directory of the cell phone numbers and found her husbands name listed (also the most often dialed calls). He “text” messaged her husband and asked for the bank code because she had forgotten it. He replied with a text message giving the thief the bank code to their account.
A woman had her purse stolen with the cell phone in it. The thief looked at the directory of the cell phone numbers and found her husbands name listed (also the most often dialed calls). He “text” messaged her husband and asked for the bank code because she had forgotten it. He replied with a text message giving the thief the bank code to their account.
Yep! They are chock full of personal info!! I'd hold on tight to those cell phones and digital cameras folks!!
I've heard it too often, over the years, would probably help to Q-tip my ears once a year?
"You're 60 years old, you've never used an ATM machine, you probably filed your PIN number away in a safe place 20 years ago, and it probably wouldn't even work now, and one these days you're going to be stranded and wish you would have learned to use one of these machines! What are you afraid of? The minute you slide your card in, it's going to eat your fingers off?"
One of these years, I'll remember this tip. Maybe!
I bring a slice or two of white bread with me, with a hole poked through the middle of it and then hold it over the keypad and enter my PIN # that way. Also I wear a sombrero.
To add to your great tip, Pam - I also keep sanitizing stuff in my truck for those times I have to put my fingers on that yucky filthy cruddy greasy dirty gross stuff. Touch-screens included. How I hate stuff like that. Oh - and gas pumps, where you gotta pick up the filthy dirty greasy cruddy yucky disgusting pump handle AND use a keypad.
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Be careful out there, everyone.
Trust me I know!!
