Criminals
need very little information to steal your identity. With
your Social Security number they can apply for credit cards,
cellular phones, loans, bank accounts, apartments and utility
accounts.
Your garbage holds a plethora of information.
Once your Social Security number or an account number hits
the dumpster or your garbage can, your identity is floating
among the discarded tea bags and orange peels, just waiting
to be stolen.
Do you toss out your bank and credit card statements
without shredding them? What about your credit card receipts
or the hoards of pre-approved credit card offers you receive
in the mail? If so, what's to stop a criminal from applying
for that card in your name? Buy a shredder.
Use a crosscut shredder. Crosscut shredders
cost more than regular shredders but are superior.
