Having good practices with your CPF is essential to avoid fraud that happens all the time these days. Especially, with the advancement of technology and physical documents, becoming increasingly uncommon.

However, even with digital technology growing every day, there are still people who end up being careless with their CPF. As a result, they suffer from personal document fraud. This is more common than we think.

Therefore, it is necessary to investigate and consult your CPF to find out about all the movements that are being made. Furthermore, there are several practices we can adopt to further protect ourselves.

That's why we produced this content, which includes 4 good practices with your CPF that are essential to maintaining the security of your documents.

In other words, Senhor Panda will show you some recommended ways to protect yourself physically and virtually from any fraud against your CPF. Let's do this?

The CPF is one of the main documents we use to carry out thousands of procedures throughout our lives. Therefore, it is common for us to look for the best ways to take care of and manage this document.

Therefore, it is normal to always seek protection to prevent fraud from occurring when the document is lost or, by chance, our personal information is entered incorrectly.

Anyway, even today there are some ways we can use to stay alert and know in advance if our CPF is being used inappropriately. But how? It's quite simple.

We have two options to check our CPF. In other words, through the SPC app or by registering with SCPC. Therefore, both platforms contain our CPF information and other personal information.

This way, we can monitor any movement in our CPF and find out if it is being used inappropriately by third parties.

First of all, we must remember that these practices are recommended to minimize as much as possible the chances of fraud and scams that may occur using your document.

However, these are not absolute practices that will put an end to fraud. Especially because, with the increase in digital documents, the vast majority of scams are on the internet.

Despite this, these habits can greatly help you who still use physical documents in various procedures.

Anyway, let's start with the basics, as many people forget that the simplest precautions are responsible for even stronger security. Let's go!

The first good practice we should have with our documents is to use them on our own. In other words, avoid handing them over to third parties so that they can carry out procedures for us.

Who has never heard the saying “if you want something done right, do it yourself”? It fits perfectly when we talk about personal documents. Therefore, we should always use it instead of other people.

Of course, close relatives may need our CPF and other documents for a specific procedure. However, it is always essential to know what the reason is. Also, where the documents will be used.

However, if third parties ask for any of your documents, this cannot happen. Because, we run a great risk of having our data used incorrectly.

Several services, mainly online, ask for the CPF and other personal information of thousands of people across Brazil at all times. Therefore, care is essential for those who provide our CPF.

In other words, this means that we must know when the CPF is necessary and when we do not need to make this information available. Considering that it is a very common document to carry out various procedures, especially financial ones.

So, online, avoid making your CPF available on untrustworthy or dubious websites. This is one of several good practices with your CPF.

Another action that we can avoid is handing over our CPF for other people to use in person or even online without us knowing. Doing this can avoid a number of problems.

Accumulation is also a very harmful habit and can be the reason for fraud, forgery and other illegal acts against our CPF or personal documents in general.

In other words, it is not recommended to accumulate copies of personal documents that we no longer use or that are no longer in acceptable conditions for use.

Therefore, copies of unused documents should not be kept. Disposing of these documents is essential.

After we discard the old documents, we can adopt copying practices for the new documents.

The most common thing to happen is copies of our documents, as in a way, it is very useful to use secondary documents, that is, copies to prevent the originals from getting damaged over time.

Despite this, it is important to have full control of our documents to avoid making unnecessary copies at all times. In this sense, many people lose their copies and end up making another one to replace it.

This results in a series of scattered copies and we don't know where many of them are. These losses can be dangerous and result in fraud depending on the situation.

Therefore, we must have a maximum of two copies of each document and properly manage them to avoid losing them. Anyway, these are good practices with your CPF that you can adhere to. This way you will avoid fraud and future problems.

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