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You can’t be too neurotic about shredding sensitive documents to smithereens. For example, some people make a career out of “dumpster diving,” digging through trash in search of bank account information, credit card preapprovals, medical bills, mortgage statements, etc., and then they commit fraud, including creating new accounts with the found information—accounts in the victim’s name.
And by the way, anything with your signature can be a gem to the dumpster diver, as your signature can be forged.
Diving for Dollars
Shredding
Burning
Miscellaneous
Ask yourself this question: If someone “stole” your trash, would that be a problem? If you say yes, then you toss too much data. For me, I don’t care, nothing I toss is of any value to anyone.
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Nkahiseng Ralepeli VP of Product: Digital Assets at Absa Bank, CIB.
07 July
Roy Prayikulam SVP Risk & Fraud Division at INFORM GmbH
02 July
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Frank Moreno CMO at Entersekt
01 July
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