Return to Forgery Detail

Identity Theft Prevention Tips


 L.V.M.P.D. Home

 About Us

 Auto Theft / VIPER

 Bureaus / Staff

 Contact Us

 Crime Information

 Crime Prevention

 Employment

 Financial / Property
 Crimes

 Forgery Detail

 Homeland Security

 Inmate Search

 Laughlin

 Links

 Multimedia

 Photo Gallery

 Police Memorial

 Press Releases

 Programs

 Tier 3 Sex Offenders

 Tourist Safety

 Wanted Fugitives

IDENTITY THEFT PREVENTION TIPS

  1. Don’t carry your social security card!

  2. If you have your social security number on your driver’s license, go to the Department of Motor Vehicle and have it removed.  There is a small fee.

  3. Don’t carry your health insurance card unless you need it for that particular day!.

  4. Don’t carry your check book.  Carry only the checks you know you will write that day!

  5. Don’t carry any cards with your social security number on them such as; military dependent card, Medicare card, etc.  Take them out of your “hiding place”, only when you will use them that day.

  6. Carry only one credit card and one debit card on your person!

  7. Pick up your mail promptly!

  8. Don’t put bills with checks in your mail box!  Use the blue U.S. Postal mail boxes.

  9. Buy a cross cut shredder.  Shred everything you receive in the mail after you are done with the document, this includes magazine labels or anything with a bar code!

  10. If you receive any phone call or e-mail requesting any personal information, hang up the phone!  Your account holders, banks, and credit card companies have this information and would never request it.

  11. Don’t give out any personal information to anyone through the internet, unless you initiate the contact!

  12. Check  your credit card and bank statements carefully for discrepancies, on line, daily, if possible.  If reviewing written statements, shred them!

  13. When ordering any product over the phone or internet, use your credit card, not your debit card.  The debit card is your bank account!

Site Designed and Maintained by
Better Way Web Sites

Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department. All Rights Reserved.
400 Stewart Avenue, Las Vegas NV, 89101-2984
Telephone (702) 795-3111 E-Mail Police Information | E-Mail Employment