16 Ways You May Be Exposing Yourself to Fraud

— -- Stand in front of a mirror. There’s the enemy. Fraud doesn’t happen to you in a vacuum. Our personally identifying information (PII) doesn’t just get magically swiped. We "swipe" our information all the time, and it’s time to stop.

The world runs on information, and no amount of wishful thinking will fully extricate you from that. But there are some best practices. As I detail in my forthcoming book, Swiped, we all need to take responsibility for the attackable surface, or vulnerability, of our personal information and our areas of exposure.

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Depending on what we do, and how we do it, those areas become bigger or smaller targets. Here’s a list of ways we routinely expose more information than we may know to criminals. It happens every time you do one of the following things.