Protect Your Credit From The World's Outlaws

     If you are an American you must know how important it is to protect your Social Security Number.  If  someone besides yourself gets a hold of your Social Security Number they can if wanted ram-sack your name and credit.  Most of us take for granted our Social Security Number is safe as long as we are careful with it, but that's not always the case.  The recent Equifax screw up is a perfect example of even when in trusted hands a person's Social Security Number can be thrown into the Wild Wild West where any Outlaw can destroy any one's   credit.  Equifax knew two months before the massive breach their system was vulnerable but they did not install a security patch they had been issued so 143 million Americans got screwed.  If I thought I could get away with it I'd burn down their Headquarters then hang all their executives form the highest tree.  Can you tell I'm pissed?.  So far Equifax has fired two people in charge of the company's account security. The Lady who was in charge of the company's security was hired into the position with a music degree.  Do you think she might have gotten  her job by doing a little under the desk hanky e panky? 
     Now that 143 million Social Security Numbers are ripe for the taking what can we all do to protects our credit account's?  First and foremost put a Fraud Alert on your Credit File.  Equifax has made that fairly easy to do.  A  Fraud Alert requires the Credit Agency to contact you by phone or email if someone tries  to open credit of any kind in your name.  Common sense says anyone who currently or has ever had any kind of credit should do this..  Convincing all 143 million Americans who's credit file was breached to do this is an impossible task and that's what the world's outlaws are counting on..