How to Protect Your Credit Card With a Jacket

You can use a jacket to help protect your credit card.

Overturning fraudulent charges on your card can be a long and arduous process as your account is shutdown and a new card is issued to you. The better option is to try to prevent your card from being stolen to begin with. Used wisely, a jacket can go a long way toward protecting your credit card from theft.

Instructions

1. Wear a jacket with zippered pockets. The chances of your card being stolen are slimmer if pickpockets must open a zipper to get to your wallet and credit cards. Keep you credit card in the zippered pocket whenever it is not in use.

2. Use a wallet. Credit cards are very light weight and can easily fall out of a jacket pocket, even with a zipper. A wallet gives you something bigger, with more weight, that is easier to keep track of. You're also more likely to notice the disappearance of a wallet than of a single credit card.

3. Wear your jacket at all times when you have your credit card in it. Do not leave your jacket hanging anywhere with a credit card in it because the card is much more likely to get stolen.

References

• National Check Fraud Center: Credit Card Fraud Prevention Techniques and Information
• The Ohio State University: Spring Break International Travel Safety Tips