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Biden administration moves to protect Alaska wilderness; opening statements and first witness in NY trial; SCOTUS hears Starbucks case, with implications for unions on the line; rural North Carolina town gets pathway to home ownership.

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Fight Fraud by Shredding Unneeded Documents

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Thursday, April 16, 2015   

INDIANAPOLIS - Tax Day has passed, but piles of papers and receipts containing personal information may still be lying around some Indiana homes. Consumer experts say it's important to destroy unnecessary sensitive documents so they don't fall into the hands of con artists.

Mandla Moyo, outreach director with AARP Indiana, says just tossing them in the trash isn't enough because sometimes all that's needed to steal someone's identity is a name and birth date.

"A bill, or some kind of credit card offer or you throw away some old tax information or something of that nature that you don't need anymore; it's really easy to get your identity and find out who you are," says Moyo.

AARP Indiana is teaming up with Crime Stoppers of Central Indiana for six shredding events that will be held Saturday, April 25 around the state. Moyo says about a third of adults shred documents on at least a weekly basis and they want to get more people to make it a habit.

At the shredding events, consumers also can recycle digital devices. Moyo says that's because scammers don't just dig through the trash.

"Technology has gotten to the point where we do a lot of online banking, we pay our bills online and a lot of times we store our passwords on our personal computers," says Moyo. "So once somebody has access to your old computer they have access to your passwords."

He adds, there were more than 35,000 identity theft and fraud complaints in Indiana last year alone.


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