Nearly Half Of Those Who Lose Credit Or Debit Cards Don't Know Any Of Their Card Numbers

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Do you know your credit card numbers by heart? Or at least have them recorded somewhere safe? If you can't locate them, you want to make sure you can put a stop to them before someone else racks up charges on your cards. It's much better to know or record them before they vanish and it's too late.

We surveyed 509 Americans in November to learn that nearly 2 in 3 Americans had either lost or had stolen their wallets, purses, pocketbooks or money clips (we'll use 'wallet' from now on to represent these four accessories). Since the law protects people who report missing credit and debit cards quickly, we then asked those who found themselves in this predicament:

21% said they didn't have missing cards, and an additional 8.2% reported recovering the cards, so they ...

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