This is scary. An internet prankster decided to test just how secure credit card companies are. He took a credit card application he had torn into small pieces, put it back together with scotch tape (poorly), changed the address and changes the phone number to a cell phone, and sent it in. It was honored and a credit card was sent to the new address with no complaints, and he was able to activate and use the credit card right away. Please note, the whole thing was done to simulate exactly what an identity thief might do. And no controls at the credit card company caught it.
It might be time to invest in one of those cross-cut shredders. Or maybe what the company I work for uses: a company that shreds documents, then incinerates them, then incinerates the ashes, then converts the ashes into blocks of building material so any stray times-new-roman characters are trapped inside of a brick in an unnamed building. Hopefully the credit cards companies are not accepting bricks for applications these days.
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