ID Theft, Protection, And Restoration

Here’s the deal. You get an email from your bank or your credit card company. It tells you “Do Not Reply” to this address. Do we listen? Do we even see what the reply address is?

Well, according to a story I just read, there are lots of people who do not understand nor do they read the entire email that says, “Don’t hit the Reply key, and go head and compose their email. They don’t understand they should not be giving out their account number, or any other confidential information at all in any email at any time. However, some people still do.

Meanwhile, back at the ranch in Seattle where a gentlemen owns the domain name, DoNotReply.com, he gets all sorts of email sent to him from people hitting the Reply key on their email. He receives way too many emails with personal information. Fortunately, he’s a person of integrity.

However, not everyone you email to is an upstanding person who will just delete your email and not want your information. So if you get a communication from any financial institution, insurance company, bank, credit card company, know that you will have a secure place to log in and send emails on the company’s web site. Do not send them a “regular email.”

The Identity Doc,

Nancy Dewitz is co-founder of BTR-Security with personal Identity Theft solutions tailored to consumers’ specific needs. She and her partner Robert Listerman are authors of the ebook “The Many Faces of Identity Theft.” They are consumer advocates and creators of individualized Identity Protection programs that give you and your family the options needed to keep your life intact.

If you have an Identity Theft story or experience that you’d like to share and become part of our upcoming book, please let us know. We’d love to hear all about it.