WARNING: Alabama Residents Should Remove These Items From Wallets

Every time you turn around another scammer is trying to get your money.

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If they are not stealing your wallet or purse, they are trying to steal your identity.

Enough is enough clowns!

I use my wallet to make sure I have the main things in order so I can grab them at any moment.

Now, authorities in Alabama are warning us that keeping certain items in purses/wallets can be very dangerous.

They claim these things should be removed from wallets or purses right away.

Lifelock provides lots of stats on identity theft that are pretty scary

According to Lifelock:

The FBI reported 27,922 victims of identity theft in 2022.¹
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) received 231,724 reports of identity theft in Q4 2023 alone.²
Data breaches involving personally identifiable information had one of the highest victim counts compared to other crimes in 2022, according to the Internet Crime Complaint Center.¹
AI-driven identity theft scams will likely increase in 2024.
The Bureau of Justice Statistics found that 12% of people over 16 learned that an entity with their personal information experienced a data breach in 2021.³

*All data above from Lifelock

Some of these stats are mind-boggling! Nearly 250,000 reports of identity theft/fraud in only a three-month period. If the numbers hold it would mean that at least 1,000,000 identity thefts are reported in one year.

So, let's look at the items we have been warned to remove from our wallets/purses.

By the way, authorities are not the only ones who advise on this course of action. The folks at Discover also agree these items should never be in your purses or wallets.

I'm upset that I have some of these items in my wallet as we speak.

So, here we go:

1. Social security number or card.

2. Checks/deposit slips

3. Multiple credit cards

4. Gift cards

5. Passwords on a piece of paper or any type of password cheat sheet

6. Extra cash

7. A spare key

Most of the reasons are pretty obvious but some may not be as obvious to you.

Credit cards for example should only be kept to one or two major cards.