Got my postal snail mail today and received a credit card for a national store. Guess what, I didn't open the account, haven't been to one of their stores in a long time, haven't been to their website, etc. It's official, there is another Shane Allen running around out there in CYBERWORLD - Wild West Web - with all of my personal/confidential information including DOB, Social Security number, phone numbers, address, etc. The only thing they had wrong was my email address. They are using something from Yahoo.
Spooky.
Trust me. If this can happen to me, it can happen to anyone. I'm beyond careful with my information. I have twenty digit long passwords, firewalls, firewalls on firewalls, don't allow online merchants to store my information - I'll enter it each time. Fortunately, being the type of forward thinking person that I am, I signed up for an independent credit protection service when I joined Synchro32. Due to business expenses, travel, etc. I use my credit card a lot. I don't have time to deal with identity theft nor chasing it all down. Paying over $100/year has just become the "new norm". The credit reporting agencies certainly won't protect your information and make it as difficult as possible for you to prevent just this.
Anyway, things are very well at Synchro32 and I have some very exciting news of where Richy Raine will be doing the next install, but I'm saving that for later in the week. Synchro32 is rapidly expanding it's global presence as the platinum provider of metalcasting specific software to the industry! Barbara, get ready to update the maps!
Till next time, one of the Shane Allen's will see you on down the road...
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