Shred Your Documents For Safety
Every one of us receives many “dangerous” documents every year and the best way to dispose of ones we don’t want to keep is to shred them, preferably with a cross cut shredder.
Shredding with a cross cut shredder – one that makes tiny bits of confetti rather than stripes of paper – is about the only way to ensure that your disposed documents are truly safe from prying eyes.
The problem is that cross cut shredders are expensive. But there are other solutions.
Are You Identity Theft Proof?
Identity theft is a huge area of crime – one that is growing every year. And it is growing because it is such an easy crime to commit. Most people make it very easy for thieves to gain access to documents that help these thieves forge their identity for gain.
While there are some things you can’t control – like when a huge company database gets hacked – there are a surprising number of things you can control to make yourself virtually identity theft proof.
Below are a series of questions that will help you build an identity theft proof life. If you can answer yes to most of them, you are well on your way to having an impregnable identity.
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What Identity Thieves Do With Your Mail
One of the big doorways to identity theft is both incoming and outgoing mail in your mailbox. It represents a treasure trove of material for perpetrating identity fraud.
But what do they look for? And how do they use it?
Let’s take a look.
Escondido Woman Rips Off Craigslist Sellers for Millions
An Escondido woman, working with overseas collaborators, pulled a scam on folks selling their stuff on Craigslist and Yahoo classified ad sellers.
The scam is pretty well known but the amount of money involved is staggering – 17.2 million.
She generated counterfeit money orders, travelers checks and fraudulent checks from stolen data and then went shopping on these classified ad sites.
Check Washing: What is it?
Check washing is a little known identity theft trick that annually defrauds the system of just under 1 billion dollars. It is a very low risk form of identity theft for the person committing the fraud and it is easily blocked in several simple ways.
First, let’s take a look at what it is and how it is done.
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