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From time to time, information will be posted on this page that we feel is important to the community. Please pass this information on to your friends and family.
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Save Money at the Pump
This is pretty nifty. Just enter your ZIP code at the site below and it tells you which gas stations have the lowest prices (and the highest) in your area. The site is updated every evening.
Click Here for Local Gas Prices from MSN Autos
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Keep Your Family Safe
Enter an address at the site below. It will show your residence. All the little colored boxes around your house are where registered sex offenders live. Click on the colored boxes and you get a name and photo of the offender along with the crime they committed. You can also zoom in to see if any offenders reside in your very neighborhood. Schools and playgrounds are displayed on the map.
Click Here to Identify Sex Offenders in Your Area
National Image, Inc. does not maintain information or accuse those portrayed on the above web site. This is information passed on to our membership and the consumer for their evaluation and information.
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Attorney's Advice (No Charge)
Read this and make a copy for your files in case you need to refer to it
someday. Maybe we should all take some of his advice! A corporate
Attorney sent the following out to the employees in his company.
1.. Do not sign the back of your credit cards. Instead, put "PHOTO ID
REQUIRED."
2.. When you are writing checks to pay on your credit card Accounts, DO
NOT put the complete account number on the "For" line. Instead, just put
the last four numbers. 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.
3.. Put your work phone # on your checks instead of your home Phone. If
you have a PO Box use that instead of your home address. If you do not
have a PO Box, use your work address. Never have your SS# printed on
your checks. (DUH!) You can add it if it is necessary. But if you have
it printed, anyone can get it.
4.. Place the contents of your wallet on a photocopy machine. Copy both
sides of each license, credit card, etc. You will know what you had in
your wallet and all of the account numbers and phone numbers to call to
cancel. Keep the photocopy in a safe place. I also carry a photocopy of
my passport when I travel either here or abroad. We've all heard horror
stories about fraud that's committed on us in stealing a name, address,
Social Security number, credit cards.
Unfortunately, I, an attorney, have firsthand knowledge because my
wallet was stolen last month. Within a week, the thieve(s) ordered an
expensive monthly cell phone package, applied for a VISA credit card,
had a credit line approved to buy a Gateway computer, received a PIN
number from DMV to change my driving record information online, and
more. But here's some critical information to limit the damage in case
this happens to you or someone you know:
5.. We have been told we should cancel our credit cards immediately. But
the key is having the toll free numbers and your card numbers handy so
you know whom to call. Keep those where you can find them.
6.. File a police report immediately in the jurisdiction where your
credit cards, etc., were stolen. This proves to credit providers you
were diligent, and this is a first step toward an investigation (if
there ever is one)
But here's what is perhaps most important of all: (I never even thought
to do this.)
7.. Call the 3 national credit reporting organizations immediately to
place a fraud alert on your name and also call the Social Security fraud
line number. I had never heard of doing that until advised by a bank
that called to tell me an application for credit was made over the
internet in my name. The alert means any company that checks your credit
knows your information was stolen, and they have to contact you by phone
to authorize new credit.
By the time I was advised to do this, almost two weeks after the theft,
all the damage had been done. There are records of all the credit checks
initiated by the thieves' purchases, none of which I knew about before
placing the alert. Since then, no additional damage has been done, and
the thieves threw my wallet away this weekend (someone turned it in). It
seems to have stopped them dead in their tracks.
Now, here are the numbers you always need to contact about your wallet,
etc., has been stolen:
1.) Equifax: 800-525-6285
2.) Experian (formerly TRW): 888-397-3742
3.) TransUnion : 800-680 - 7289
4.) Social Security Administration (fraud line): 800-269-0271
We pass along jokes on the Internet; we pass along just about
everything.
If you are willing to pass this information along, it could really help
someone that you care about.
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