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Wed 2006-03-15

Time to buy a shredder

Filed under: — daniel @ 22:39

You think it’s safe to rip up unwanted credit card application junkmail? Well, maybe not. As this guy found out, if the pieces all get stuck back together, filled-in with a different address and phone number from what was on the form, the bank was still happy to send him a new card.

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One Response to “Time to buy a shredder”

  1. josh Says:

    I loved the bit where the company said the best way to prevent identity theft was to shread or tear up the application.

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