One reason I don’t use credit cards is that I’ve never felt they were safe. It just seems so easy for someone to use them unlawfully, to somehow get the numbers and away they go, charging their way across the state with my plastic.
But then I learned this from Liz Pulliam Weston:
A crook can use just one check to steal your 
money and ruin your good name. And paper gives you far less protection than a credit or debit card.
Familiarity has bred comfort with the lowly check, but identity-theft experts say a criminal who swipes a single check - or even a deposit slip - from your checkbook can cause far more long-lasting damage than one who gets hold of your plastic.
One criminal "can write 30 bad checks and drop them in 30 different jurisdictions," [and] guess who gets to deal with ... 30 different merchants, 30 different collection agencies and 30 different law enforcement jurisdictions and prosecutors? The person whose name is on the check."
Read the entire article at MSN Money, and watch your checkbook.
