This includes anything with personal information on it including credit card offers, insurance forms, bank checks, and receipts. If you will be out of town for awhile, have someone pick up your mail or reroute it temporarily to a post office box. In fact, it's a good idea to receive your mail at a post office box, period. Mail bills from an official U.S. Post Office box, not your home mail box. This ensures that no one will steal your outgoing bills and correspondence.
Telephone Calls Make credit card purchases or calling card calls on a private telephone.
If one is not available, take a look around you to make sure no one is listening in, and keep your voice down. Be wary when someone calls or emails you asking for personal information. It's a good rule never to provide any personal information unless you initiate the call. The less information you have on your checks, the better. For example, vendors may not need to know your social security number or home telephone number.