Protect Your Personal Information

Because you can control the information you choose to release, you are the single best person to protect your personal information. There are some easy ways do this by keeping anything with any personal or account information in a safe place, providing your information only to trusted sources, and by reducing the amount of mail you receive with your information on it.

Bank of America offers a suite of tools designed to help protect you against identity theft. Get credit monitoring every business day with alerts when certain changes in your credit file(s) occur.
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It’s okay to be skeptical when providing your personal information. If you can’t verify the legitimacy of the business or person that you may be providing your information to, or if you don’t understand why a certain piece of information is needed, you may want to think twice about the transaction. Learn more

Secure Your Computer

You don’t have to be an expert in computers to protect yourself on the Internet from online fraud and identity theft.

If you haven’t already, install anti-spyware, anti-virus, and a personal firewall on your computer. There are many of these products available that will help you prevent criminals from gaining access to your computer and stealing your personal information. A properly protected computer will provide you with secure access to your financial information and combat the efforts of criminals trying to gain access to your activities.

Understanding what online threats exist is always helpful too, but there are other steps that you can easily take to further reduce your fraud and identity theft risk while online. Learn more