How to Protect Your Finances Online (And Prevent Getting Scammed!)
The Personal Finance Podcast
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How Do You Freeze Your Credit?
This is one of the most underrated things that people aren't doing right now. The document you're going to need when you go to freeze your credit is typically your social security number, your date of birth and your address. If you want to sign up for a mortgage, you just unfreeze your credit, sign up for the mortgage. Once that process is done, freeze it back up again. And I'm a person who signs up for multiple credit cards, as you know from the travel hacking episode. It's probably the safest thing that you can do outside of removing as much of your information as possible online.
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