In message , Ziggy writes
But does this really matter for the typical home/soho user?
I can't believe someone is going to bothered to root around in my bin to piece together recipts/bills etc.
In message , a writes
But not as much fun as burning the credit card itself
Don't you believe it.
A former colleague living in Switzerland had exactly this happen. He lived close to the parliament in Bern in a district where mainly business people and politicians resided. In typical tidy fashion, there was a local ordinance that rubbish should not be put out more than 4 hours before the appointed collection time. For him this was
1400, but of course he left for work at 0730 each day, so of course put out the rubbish along with everyone else in the street immediately before leaving.One day, the colleague arrived home to find an official notice that he should attend the local police station because of a complaint - the subject being Abfall (rubbish). He duly went there, only to meet a group of his neighbours and a very weary police sergeant who explained that he, too, was aggrieved because he had had a complaint from one of the politicians about the rubbish. In order to identify the culprits, he had had to send out his men at 0955 (just before the appointed time limit) to check people's rubbish and look for envelopes etc. to identify who it belonged to. My colleague was a definite shredaholic and everything including junk mail went through his machine.
The police showed him a piece of paper with pieces of one of his shredded envelopes stuck to it, reformed as his name and address..
If it can happen in Bern it can happen in Leeds.
His area of Bern was also described as "soho", but that was for a different reason.
.andy
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Hi,
It might be worth seeing if there is a local company that does secure document disposal, if they charge a few quid for an archive box worth it might be easier to let them deal with it.
Anyway that's what I plan to do with my Ltd. Co. documents when I've kept them long enough.
cheers, Pete.
Hi,
It might be worth seeing if there is a local company that does secure document disposal, if they charge a few quid for an archive box worth it might be easier to let them deal with it.
Anyway that's what I plan to do with my Ltd. Co. documents when I've kept them long enough.
Here's an example:
cheers, Pete.
... not really an argument pointing towards the great likelihood of identity theft though is it! :-)
Why? What 'identity' is there to steal in a company name and address?
True - however sometimes people will go to great lengths......
.andy
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