Protect your personal information at a free community shred event
Posted Oct 19, 2018 05:53:00 PM.
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Make sure your personal documents don't end up in the wrong hands with a free document shredding event happening this weekend.
The Better Business Bureau is holding the event and encourages people to bring up to two bankers boxes full of unwanted documents.
Designed to protect individuals, only personal documents will be accepted.
President and CEO of the Better Business Bureau Atlantic Peter Moorhouse says there are three different kinds of documents that should be destroyed.
The first he says can lead to identity theft.
“Stuff that can be used by someone who knows how to steal identities to actually put together a financial profile that can mimic yours and then cause you all sorts of grief trying to prove that you are who you say you are,” he says.
Moorhouse says the second kind of document is what you don't want your neighbours to see.
“I am thinking old prescription documents, healthcare documents, things that are personal and private,” he says.
And the third, according to Moorhouse, can leave you open to financial loss.
“Any credit card or banking statement that has a complete account number or credit card number on it, that kind of information can actually be used to potentially charge you or take money from you,” he says.
The free shred event takes place in the parking lot of 7071 Bayers Road Saturday from 11 a.m. until 2 p.m.
Donations of non-perishable food items will be collected for Feed Nova Scotia.
