Be alert for any unauthorized charges to your credit card as well as unauthorized debits to your checking or savings account. Review all account statements on a timely basis. Apparently, many consumers are heeding such advice and staying one step ahead of the Y2K swindlers. Too Much Sure, there are procrastinators. But key institutions have been targeting Y2K for a while.
Financial institutions claim to be nearly ready.
The Securities and Exchange Commission also estimates that 99 percent of the brokerage firms and securities transfer agents are Y2K compliant. The same percentage of the nation's power companies is ready, according to US Energy Secretary Bill Richardson. The Federal Aviation Administration says all its systems are Y2K ready. Worth, on New Year's Eve, and then on to San Francisco. The Christian Science Monitor.