Why not throw your documents in the trash?

Once you throw out any day-to-day documents that have already become garbage, any person can legitimately pick them up. Keep your personal data, making sure that you do not throw out these documents anywhere.

Boarding passes and tickets

They should be destroyed after you have used them. Your boarding pass, for example, may contain travel plans, as well as barcodes that someone can decipher. This code often shows your airline number, and scammers can use it to enter the site, view the plan for upcoming flights, check your flights and even cancel the trip.

Signed prescriptions for buying medicines

Recipes may include your name, date of initial issue, name and quantity of the drug, and the name of the pharmacist. Thieves can use this information to steal your data or buy a drug.

Receipts and checks

Destroy all receipts and checks that you no longer need. For example, checks remaining from a purchase on a credit card contain the last digits of its number, and in some cases also your signature. For some stores, including sites, this data is enough to make a purchase.

Medical documents from veterinary clinics

Keep records of basic documents and get rid of unnecessary ones. The documents from the veterinarian often indicate the name of your pet, and according to the latest survey conducted by Google, it is the most common when choosing a password.

Letters

Destroy unnecessary letters received by mail, together with envelopes, which have your address and name. Thieves often use this data, as well as information that you indicate in social media (names of family members, work history) to put together your personality. If you write the return address on the envelope, omit your name.

Summary

Do not throw away the horrible copies of the resume, without first breaking them. If the resume falls into the hands of scammers, they can easily find out your name, phone number, actual address and e-mail, information about your previous employment and your education. And all this on a comfortable sheet of paper.

Additional documents on the birth of a child

Children are twice as likely to become victims of identity theft. Destroy additional birth certificates because they contain their name, date of birth, weight, eye color and other personal identifiers. If a child was born with you, you should not accept cash gifts, the registration of which requires a child's social security number. Often, his instructions are not required to open an account.

Additional funeral prospectuses

Scammers also often use data from deceased people, such as accounts of open credit cards, tax returns. It is necessary to destroy all additional funeral prospectuses or obituaries if you are not going to save them. If you want to publish an obituary, use the age of the deceased, and not the date of his birth or maiden name. These personal data are very convenient for thieves.