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If you think the American consumer is hurting from the effects of identity theft, think for a second about what it’s doing to the other victims: American businesses. Javelin Research estimates that online retailers lost $21 billion in potential sales because identity theft victims are now afraid to shop online.

If you’re looking to keep your personal information safe, there are other things to do to protect yourself besides quitting your online shopping altogether. Here are just a few:
• Only shop at reputable, secure sites. Look for the lock icon in the navigation bar and an https in the site address when you get to the online order form.
• Never send credit card information over email. It is not a secure way to submit this information, especially if you’re using a non-corporate address.
• Read reviews of online businesses before you patronize them. Check and see if they have been approved by the Better Business Bureau.
• Check websites for VeriSign “badges” or notices of other reputable brands of security software.

If you’re not sure if a site is secure, always give yourself the benefit of the doubt, not the site. If your instincts t

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So You Want To Increase Your Credit Score?

Most people who currently have bad credit scores are always looking for tips to increase credit scores that have fallen to terrible levels. These people are well aware of how difficult bad credit can and does make your life. Below you will see three very effective but simple tips to increase your credit score without paying a credit repair firm thousands of dollars.

Three Simple Tips To Increase Your credit Scores

Work On Your Current Debt- Probably one of the most effective ways to get your credit scores to increase is work on paying down your current debt. What this will do is to lower the percentage of your account balances to the account limits. This can be done by paying it down, moving the balances around to two or three different accounts or by getting an account limit increase. The magic number you are shooting for is to have your account balances below 50% of the account limit, once this happens your scores can jump 50-100 points in a single month!

Get Some Good Accounts On Your Credit Report- While working to decrease your debt you also need to start adding positive accounts history to your credit report. Full Post…

I recently tried to get a credit card in my name. Easier said than done, it turns out. While I had always had a card as a user on my husband’s account I had decided that it was important to have something that was entirely in my name. I thought that this was a perfect time to apply considering that the holidays were coming up and cash flow was a little tight. I wanted to be able to budget out my holiday shopping and having a small credit limit in my name was, I thought, a good idea. However, I was denied credit – even a small limit. This was the first time that I had really given any thought to my own personal credit report.

It turns out that having little to no credit is just as detrimental as having bad credit. I just had very little in my own name and it was counting against me. I needed something in my name and I needed it quickly so I began to look at secured credit cards.

Secured credit cards allow for the cardholder to carry a particular limit that must first be deposited into a secured savings account that is held by the lender; this is to protect all parties involved. For instance, I could have a $1,000 limit by first depositing $1,000 for the lender to hold. M

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It Is Possible To Fix Your Own Credit

“I must fix my credit quickly”! If you have ever been told “NO” when you applied for a much needed loan then you probably have said these same words to yourself. Even though you want to do credit repair and fix your credit report you probably have no idea how to get it done!

How You Can Easily Do Credit Repair Yourself

What you need to do first when trying to fix your own credit is to get a copy of your credit report and figure out the reasons why your FICO scores are so low. To do this you need to look for negative and false information that is listed on your report.

What Should I Look For On My Report

When you are looking at your credit report start out by scanning for mistakes that are listed, basically information that is wrong! This is not just accounts that are not yours but look at payment history, account limits and balances and also your previous employers and home addresses.

Negative accounts are accounts and activity that is going to be damaging your credit score. This often includes 30,60 and 90 day late payments. Full Post…

It’s difficult sometimes to take a step back and look at your finances from an objective point of view. There are things you want to buy, places you want to travel and taking an honest look at the reality of your money situation may put a damper on all of the fun stuff that you think you can afford if you’re not really looking closely at things. For those who want to get serious about their money, however, and really make headway on their financial objectives, there has to be a reality check and it starts with a credit report.

There are far too few of us who are disciplined enough to really have a handle on our credit report. In fact, we may be surprised to learn what is on our credit report and how it subsequently impacts our financial health. We may only learn about the details of our credit report when we apply for a particular loan and are given our credit score. But even then that may only be the information derived from one credit bureau.

There are, in fact, three credit bureaus and a credit report is held by each of them. So when we investigate into our credit standing it is important to get the information from each of the credit bureaus. The

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