 Protecting your identity is a must. One way to make sure your identity is safe is to keep track of your credit cards. Well, the first thing I'll recommend is you don't want to carry all your credit cards with you. Only carry the ones that you're actually going to use. That way, if you lose your wallet or things like that, you don't have to deal with, you know, 10 or 11 credit cards. You want to check your statements and your billing daily. If you use it a lot, at least weekly. And scrutinize every purchase. The new thing with the hackers is when they scam your information, they'll send a charge through for under a dollar. A lot of people may see that on their statement and just regard it or blow it off. What happens is once that charge goes through, it tells them that the account is open and active and then they begin to make other purchases. Large dollar amount purchases.