Lionheart Assurance Solutions Provides Tips To Keep Your Social Security Number Safe

At a seminar for identity theft, the audience was asked who was carrying their original Social Security card in their wallet. It was inevitable that hands did rise. These Lionheart Assurance Solutions experts assisting customers, employees and vendors then communicated they should use caution with this type of personal identification being kept in wallet or purses regularly. Originals of Social Security cards should be kept in a home or business safe or in a deposit box at a bank. Only carry the card when you have to use it for the purpose of identification in a transaction where it is needed. After which it should be returned to its safe place immediately.

The use of employment scams, in order to get peoples social security numbers, is being used by thieves. Today's economy making such a scam easy to perpetrate. These thieves take advantage of desperate people who are out of work and looking. It is necessary that we all become educated in all forms of identity theft. Learn to question anyone who ask you for your social security number. Ask they why they need it. How they plan to keep it secure and how they are going to dispose of it when it is no longer needed. All reputable companies will answer these questions.

The estimation is that ten million social security numbers will end up with thieves of identity theft organizations. If your number ends up being one of them and is used by another person for a job, the number will be sold again, again for at least another eight different times to other identity thieves. Your social security number will be involved over and over again. Thus multiplying your difficulties many times. It is not unusual to for parents to get a new born baby a social security card. It is done by many parents for different reasons. These cards are very vulnerable. They can be lost, misplaced and even stolen by the time it is needed when the child seeks employment. No person is too old or too young to have their card stolen and used fraudulently.

It is recommended by Lionheart Assurance Solutions, LP for each person to make a photocopy of all the contents of their wallet and put it in a safe place. If you wallet is ever lost or perhaps stolen you have a record of its contents. All these details would be needed for the law enforcement officials, credit card companies, your bank and the federal and state department organizations who issue identification.