Vacation should be about one thing: relaxing. If your credit cards are stolen, though, you’ll spend more time in your hotel room undoing fraud than lying on the beach sipping a drink decorated with a tiny umbrella.
Lost or stolen wallets, checkbooks, credit and debit cards make up 43 percent of all fraud cases where the person knows how their information was stolen, according to Javelin Strategy & Research’s 2009 identity fraud report.