Dear Editor,
I just read through the recent article about one student’s experience with credit theft. Although I have never had my money and credit squandered by a thief, I came very close myself.
My purse was stolen out of my car, which was sitting in my brightly-lit garage, as I was coming in and out of the house loading up my vehicle in the process of moving to my new apartment. Fortunately, it was 11 p.m. at night, and I realized the purse was gone within 30 minutes. I confirmed the theft by calling my cell phone service provider to see if any calls had been made from my cell phone since the time of my last call.
Sure enough, the culprit had already gone through three of my programmed numbers. I am just thankful that the theft occurred late at night, preventing the thief from spending money everywhere. Ever since then, I have taken extra precautions to prevent this from happening again. Here are some of my personal tips to keep this from happening to the general public:
1. Ladies, zip up your purse when walking anywhere. My step-mother has had her wallet plucked out of her open purse TWICE.
2. Do NOT keep old credit card receipts in your wallet or purse.
3. Instead of signing the back of your credit card(s), put “See ID” in the signature area. IF the vendor checks for your signature, they’ll have to ask for your picture ID to verify your identity.
4. IMPORTANT: Every time you sign a credit/debit card receipt, check to see if the printer has put your entire credit card number on the receipt. THIS HAPPENS ALL THE TIME. If you sign that receipt with your full account number displayed, you might as well hand your credit card to the store’s employees, not to mention anyone who might pick through the store’s trash. To avoid identity/credit theft, all you have to do is thoroughly scratch out part of the number on the merchant’s copy. Even if they look at you strangely, you can look right back–they shouldn’t allow your entire credit information to be visible on their paperwork.
– Rachel Maxwell
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Dear fellow University of Denver students,
We are writing to you out of concern. The new $63.5 million law building’s computers are banned for use by all undergraduate students.
We as students should be entitled to the use of every available University of Denver resource, but we are not.
It is time for the law school to realize that they have returned back to the main campus for the first time since 1944, and that now all DU academic programs are united on campus. The Lamont School of Music and Daniels College of Business facilitate undergraduate students.
We ask you why the law school is able to ban undergraduate students from their computers. Wouldn’t it be great to feel the same privilege as these graduate students? The fact that we are not able to use these computers outrages us and should make you feel the same way.
When are we going to stand up and make a change?
– Senator Daniel Goldware and Senator Yusaf Malik
