[tsycho]

Reading the comments here gave me an idea....google your own credit card numbers to check if its already in some scammer's index. While no results might not necessarily mean you are safe, a positive match is a clear red flag.

[andrenotgiant]

Even better, LOCK DOWN YOUR GOOGLE ACCOUNT WITH DOUBLE AUTHENTICATION, then set Google alerts for your:

credit card, or if paranoid, partial credit card # "123456789"

Email address

Home address

Phone number

screen name (e.g.: "andrenotgiant" -site:ycombinator.com)

Bank acct partial

Password, Password partial "p@ssw0r"

[sausagefeet]

Sweet, now someone just has to get into my google account settings and I'm screwed.

[brown9-2]

I imagine this is why the parent poster mention enabling two-factor authentication first.

[adyus]

Sweet, now someone has to get into parent's google account AND swipe his phone!

[burgerbrain]

And my phone has my google account information.. :/

[skeptical]

Are we too obsessed to ignore irony/humour?

[yalogin]

Are these alerts over Gmail traffic or the whole internet?

[iclelland]

Better yet, do this several times per day -- see how long it takes to get your numbers into Google Suggest :)

[bgentry]

Doing that over HTTP (not HTTPS) is a fairly bad idea.