Criminals are becoming more ingenious in how they make off with your identity. Courage is not a must
Criminals are becoming more ingenious in how they make off with your identity. Courage is not a must any more, nor is gu and knives or any physical hurt. Now days it could be your neighbor or a person you pa in the mall. We can on no account be too careful with our identity.
Whatever system the crooks use, mail theft, account invasion, dum ter diving, the end result is the same: An i ocent person like you is ri ed off.
Think about this for a second; what is a very low-tech system use by thieves to undertake identity theft? It is basically stealing mail from u ecured mailboxes. Thieves have been stealing mail out of u ecured mail boxes for many year but it has only been in the current time that thieves have come to realize the income to be acquired from the financial information they can get. How safe is your mail box?
Mail theft ha e most of the time, according to the information, at places where u rotected and easy to get to mailboxes are these are mailboxes that do not have a lock and in normal places. Does your mailbox fall into this type?
Thieves can and do, using outgoing stolen mail, obtain sufficient important information to open a new account with the victims (your) name. Crooks can take pre-a roved credit card a lication, change the addre to a new addre , and then send it in. Criminals can steal a credit card statement, lift the account number, and buy goods or services. A thief can watch your incoming mail for a new credit card or ATM card, steal it, and charge thousands of dollars to it in one afternoon.
What about the red flag on your mailbox? One mail carrier said, The postal service call those red flags the steal me flags. Start taking your out-going mail to the post office or drop US mail boxes on your way to or from work. Thieves can and will do much damage with what they remove from your mailbox.
Whatever system the crooks use, mail theft, account invasion, dum ter diving, the end result is the same: An i ocent person like you is ri ed off.
Think about this for a second; what is a very low-tech system use by thieves to undertake identity theft? It is basically stealing mail from u ecured mailboxes. Thieves have been stealing mail out of u ecured mail boxes for many year but it has only been in the current time that thieves have come to realize the income to be acquired from the financial information they can get. How safe is your mail box?
Mail theft ha e most of the time, according to the information, at places where u rotected and easy to get to mailboxes are these are mailboxes that do not have a lock and in normal places. Does your mailbox fall into this type?
Thieves can and do, using outgoing stolen mail, obtain sufficient important information to open a new account with the victims (your) name. Crooks can take pre-a roved credit card a lication, change the addre to a new addre , and then send it in. Criminals can steal a credit card statement, lift the account number, and buy goods or services. A thief can watch your incoming mail for a new credit card or ATM card, steal it, and charge thousands of dollars to it in one afternoon.
What about the red flag on your mailbox? One mail carrier said, The postal service call those red flags the steal me flags. Start taking your out-going mail to the post office or drop US mail boxes on your way to or from work. Thieves can and will do much damage with what they remove from your mailbox.
