This is a story about identity theft and how I discovered my identity had been stolen. Some of the headaches, the endless paperwork and the things I wished I would have known years ago. I am determined to get back to a FICO score above 720

Shred All of your Documents to Protect your Identity

Posted by Kevin

One of the easiest lessons that I learned in the process of repairing my credit is that a lot of what I did like keeping my social security card in my wallet, just dumping old bills into the trash and tossing unopened credit card offers are the easiest way to have your credit stolen.

I use a cross cut shredder – just search Google for it and you can find one for about $100 bucks. Get a shredder that can handle 10-15 pieces at a time, it will save you a ton of effort and it will mulch trough used credit cards and those huge stacks of credit card statements that you have laying around.

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