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    The document provides tips from the Better Business Bureau on protecting yourself from credit card fraud. It advises signing cards as they arrive, carrying cards separately from your wallet, keeping records of account information, watching cards during transactions, destroying receipts, reconciling statements promptly, reporting questionable charges, notifying companies of address changes, and reporting lost or stolen cards immediately. It also notes that credit card fraud costs cardholders and issuers hundreds of millions annually.

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    The document provides tips from the Better Business Bureau on protecting yourself from credit card fraud. It advises signing cards as they arrive, carrying cards separately from your wallet, keeping records of account information, watching cards during transactions, destroying receipts, reconciling statements promptly, reporting questionable charges, notifying companies of address changes, and reporting lost or stolen cards immediately. It also notes that credit card fraud costs cardholders and issuers hundreds of millions annually.

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    #280 BBB 09-30-10 148

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    The document provides tips from the Better Business Bureau on protecting yourself from credit card fraud. It advises signing cards as they arrive, carrying cards separately from your wallet, keeping records of account information, watching cards during transactions, destroying receipts, reconciling statements promptly, reporting questionable charges, notifying companies of address changes, and reporting lost or stolen cards immediately. It also notes that credit card fraud costs cardholders and issuers hundreds of millions annually.

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    MAGNOLIA

    CLIPPING SERVICE

    (601) 856·0911 f (205) 758·8610


    WOODVILLE REPUBLICAN

    WOODVILLE, MS

    Circulation =2550
    WEEKLY
    09/16/2010
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    Protect-<"ourself From
    Credit Card Fraud
    )~( •
    Creil'i( card fraud costs as possible.
    cardholders and issuers • Void any incorrect re­
    hundreds of millions of ceipts.
    dollars each year. • Destroy any carbon
    It is not always possible and carbon copies.
    to prevent such fraud, but • Save receipts to com­
    there are some steps that pare with billing state­
    can be taken to make it ments.
    more difficult for a crook • Reconcile account
    to steal card numbers. statements promptly.
    The Better Business • Report any question­
    Bureau' tBBB) S'erving able charges promptly and
    MIssissippi offers these in writing to the card is-
    tips and other things to do suer.
    in order to help protect • Notify card compa­
    yourself from credit card nies of address changes in
    fraud: advance.
    • Sign your cards as • Report stolen or lost
    soon as they arrive. cards promptly.
    • Carry your cards sep­ "If you lose your card,
    arately from your wallet. or if you realize it has
    • Keep a record of your been stolen, immediately
    account numbers, expira­ call the issuers. Many
    tion dates, and phone companies have toll-free
    numbers for the compa­ numbers and 24-hour
    nies issuing cards. service to deal with such
    • Keep an eye on your emergencies," said Bill
    card during transactions Moak, President/CEO of
    and retrieve it as quickly the Mississippi BBB.

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