Joan’s Country Kitchen

Shopping online is easy and convenient but, let’s face it, every time you shop or transact with a web site online you put yourself the risk because other people have access to your personal financial information. As someone who has had my own credit card number stolen while shopping online, I can vouch for the necessity of using a service like Shop Shield® to keep me safer online and protect me from identity theft in the future. Shop Shield® offers the most complete protection against identity theft and credit card fraud when you shop, pay bills, make a Credit Card Payment or register with web sites.

Shop Shield® safeguards all my personal data when I’m shopping or paying bills online because Internet thieves, hackers and insiders don’t have access to my name, address, phone numbers, credit card numbers, passwords or my email addresses, because this information is never provided to any web sites. Shop Shield® replaces all my personal identity information with anonymous information so you and your family stay anonymous, and your information is secure.

Shop Shield® works almost everywhere major Credit Card Payment is accepted – so you can shop or pay bills securely at almost any web site.

How Shop Shield® Works

Shop Shield® replaces your real payment and identity information with anonymous data that is useless to thieves and can’t be traced to you. It’s the only product that protects ALL of your data, including your name, billing address, email address, passwords, phone number, credit cards, debit cards, and bank accounts.

Using Shop Shield® is also FREE when you pay with a checking account and is guaranteed 100% secure.

Luckily for me, my own case was easily solved. I check my bank accounts frequently and noticed a few small charges I did not make. My bank was great about canceling the charges and the card and issuing me a new card. If I’d known about Shop Shield® back then, however, I wouldn’t even have had that inconvenience.

Check out their service and see for yourself how easy, convenient and safe Shop Shield can be.

Like most Americans these days, I have had my credit card number stolen while shopping online. Luckily for me, it was easy to fix the problem and I didn’t lose any money. However, since this happened, I decided to look into a prepaid card like those offered by NetSpend.

NetSpend offers a company debit card to use virtually anywhere to make purchases, pay bills, secure hotel and car rental reservations and shop online without the need even for a bank or credit history. This is a perfect solution for teaching your teenager to use a debit card responsibly. Simply charge the card with their allowence each week. Send one off with your college student so you can put money on the card at home and they can use it safely anywhere.

You can also get a prepaid debit card from NetSpend for traveling. Simply put the money onto your card and use it to make purchases for a specific length of time. That way you won’t be a victim of identity theft while traveling, eating in restaurants and shopping in distant cities.

NetSpend’s prepaid cards offer a great budgeting tool also. Put your grocery moeny on a NetSpend card each month and resolve to only spend your budgeted amount. Even low to moderate income shoppers can use these prepaid cards.

If you’re worried about identity theft, and these days, who isn’t, consider a Netspend prepaid card.

I always love a great Hannah Swensen mystery by Joanne Fluke and Blueberry Muffin Murder was another hit. Reading a Joanne Fluke mystery, set in Lake Eden, Minnesota, is like having a homey visit with Hannah, her sister Andrea, Hannah’s two boyfriends, Mike and Norman, and all the various characters who reside in this chilly little town, including the neurotic Moishe the cat.