Stop Credit Card Thieves in the Act

Setting Up Account Alerts Can Help Protect You From Fraud.

Did you realize that you can have your credit card company and bank notify you anytime there is activity on your account? This tool makes it very easy to catch fraud before it stings your wallet.

Posted by Identity Theft Speaker John Sileo in Business Life, Fraud Detection & Prevention, Video Tips.

4 Responses to Stop Credit Card Thieves in the Act

Marilyn Starzer: October 21, 2016 at 2:15 pm

Always great info! Thanks so much for all your work and sharing your knowledge.
Rob Monroe: October 22, 2016 at 7:04 pm

John – I love your videos! I just watched the ones about password security (I’m already a 1 Password user…love it) and credit card alerts (I know some of my accounts are set up with alerts but not all…they will be now!).
John Sileo, Identity Theft Speaker: October 24, 2016 at 3:06 pm

Thanks so much for the kind words, Rob! Huge fan of 1Password.
joe salerno: January 10, 2017 at 1:41 am

I set up account alerts as suggested. Excellent idea, except when it fails.

They work with 2 of my Cards from different vendors, but I have 2 cards

from Citibank that refuse to work. I have it set up correctly, their people

confirm that it is set up correctly, and I have been able to receive an alert

during the set up process. That is as far as it goes. I cannot get a real alert

with either of those 2 cards. My phone is with Walmart Family Value,

which is powered by T-Mobile.

I’ve read somewhere that T-Mo uses some different method of sending txt

messages, something about an abbreviated address. Have you heard

about this? I wonder if this is the issue? I don’t have another smart phone

to test it on. All my other text msg from people, my other credit cards,

banks, utilities, amazon, paypal, and my internet provider work fine. Of

course, the tech support people at WFM don’t know a thing about this.

I wonder of you have additional information.