| Crooks are becoming more creative in how they | | | | these are mailboxes that do not have a lock and |
| steal your identity. Courage is not a condition any | | | | in common places. Does your mailbox fall into this |
| more, nor is guns and knives or any physical | | | | group? Thieves know how to and carry out, via |
| harm. Now days it could be your neighbor or a | | | | outgoing stolen mail, obtain adequate indispensable |
| person you pass in the mall. We can never be too | | | | information to begain a new account with the |
| cautious with our identity. Whatever system the | | | | victims (your) name. Crooks can take |
| crooks use, mail theft, account invasion, dumpster | | | | pre-approved credit card application, change the |
| diving, the end result is the same: An innocent | | | | address to a new address, and then send it in. A |
| person like you is ripped off. Think about this for | | | | thief can watch your incoming mail for a new |
| a minute; what is a very low-tech way use by | | | | credit card or ATM card, steal it, and charge |
| thieves to pull off identity theft? It is basically | | | | thousands of dollars to it in one afternoon. |
| stealing mail from unsecured mailboxes. Thieves | | | | Criminals can steal a credit card statement, lift the |
| have been stealing mail out of unsecured mail | | | | account number, and buy goods or services. |
| boxes for many years; but it has only been in the | | | | What about the red flag on your mailbox? One |
| current years that thieves have come to realize | | | | mail carrier said, The postal service call those red |
| the earnings to be acquired from the financial | | | | flags the steal me flags. Start taking your |
| information they can get. How protected is your | | | | out-going mail to the post office or drop US mail |
| mail box? Mail theft happens nearly all of the time, | | | | boxes on your way to or from work. Thieves |
| according to the figures, at places where | | | | can and will do much damage with what they |
| unprotected and easy to get to mailboxes are | | | | remove from your mailbox. |