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What is an active duty military alert?

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Speaker: What is an Active Duty Military Alert?

Linda Sherry: An Active Duty Military Alert is a great thing for people who serve in the military to know about. It's an extra protection so that when our service members go overseas or go on active duty, they aren't able all the time to monitor their credit reports and credit accounts and credit card statements and all of that as easily once they are overseas on active duty.

So what they can do is they can call up the credit reporting bureau's and they can put an active military alert. This will make sure that they don't get any unsolicited offers of credit that come in the mail, that thieves could take advantage of and they will make sure that anyone that tries to open credit in their name, if it they are alerted to the fact that this person is overseas at this moment.

Expert: Linda Sherry

Director, National Priorities

http://www.consumer-action.org

Email: editor@consumer-action.org

Linda Sherry, Consumer Action’s director of national priorities and one of the organization’s chief spokespersons, joined the San Francisco-based national consumer education and advocacy group in 1994 from a background as a weekly newspaper reporter.Consumer Action (www.consumer-action.org), founded in 1971, has a national reputation for free multilingual consumer education on personal finance More »