You Don’t Have to be on the Net to get your Identity Stolen
Business March 12th, 2006
The old-fashioned way still works … junk mail you throw in the garbage can come back an haunt you. Check out the story at cockeyed.com.
They ran a test: tore a credit card application to pieces, taped it back together, changed the address and phone number on it, and still received the credit card!
This is scary … time to get a shredder.
Update (3/13): “Shredding mail and other personal documents is not enough to protect yourself…” says TechCrunch.
Tags: identity theft, consumer fraud, credit card fraud, privacy, junk mail
Zoli Erdos
Even better, get the credit card junk mail turned off. Check out the links in my post, they can help you to stop the credit card junk mail.
http://mattluce.com/blog/2006/01/03/war-on-junk-mail/
Matt, thanks, I did it so-many years and two moves ago. Now it’s startign again. Fighting it takes time, who has time for this?