Deputy Bill Adams of the Gloucester County Sheriff’s Office gave members of the Gloucester Retired Educators Association an entertaining, but serious lecture on Thursday, March 27, on how to protect themselves from fraud and identity theft, whether online, shopping, eating out, writing checks, mailing bills, answering phone calls, or responding to salespeople at the door trying to sell left-over products from projects in the neighborhood. To help with safer check writing, Adams left each of the 24 members present with a blue gel-ink pen. He also left the resource booklet, “Safe and Secure: Your Identity, Your Money, Your Personal Safety.”
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