Taking Steps with Purchases – On and Off the Internet: Identity theft is not limited to internet users. Stopping all internet purchases does not eliminate your risk. In fact, the only reason it reduces your risk, is because you are not using the credit card in the first place. So what can be done? Here [...]

Breaches or the transfer of information can happen in many places on and off the internet. By taking steps to prevent your information floating to others, you can reduce your risk greatly.

Taking Steps In Your Home:

Quilting is a 3.6 billion dollar industry as stated in the 2006 industry report “Quilting in America”. Per the report, 17 percent or 19.135 million of all U.S. Households reported having someone that participates in quilting. The total number of quilters in the U.S. now exceeds over 27 million. (1) Most of these quilting dollars are being spent through credit cards at local shops or via the internet making quilters a target of identity theft more than ever. Some have protected themselves by not shopping on the internet at all. Some find no increased risk in internet shopping.

The question remains, “are any of us safe from credit card fraud or identity theft?” Probably not, but some of us are definitely more safe than others.

Tips and Tricks: Organizing Your Scraps Easy, Simple Solutions Written by Ronna Lynn Ross Grace Full Creations Not to toot my own horn, but I am “Queen Bee” of anal retentive storage. I sometimes wonder if I am bordering on obsessive compulsive, but I figure my studio wouldn’t ever be messy, if I was to [...]