Day 55 - Who Am I?

As much as the credit card companies fret and worry about identity theft - all for YOUR benefit of course, never mind the increasing fees due to they say paying for increased security measures - they're the biggest enablers of identity theft out there. My credit card statement is usually never less than three pages. One page is the actual statement. The other two pages are propaganda for whatever they're pushing that particular month. Now I wouldn't care about this except, I kinda do because HEY TREES! but those two USELESS pages have my name, address and CREDIT CARD NUMBER on them.

I'm a dutifully careful person so I shred all my paperwork that has sensitive information and today I was going through the day's mail making piles for what was recyclable and what needed to be shredded. That's when I noticed it. Those two extra pages have my information at the top of the page AND at the bottom! Talk about over kill.

If they really want to help prevent identity theft, maybe credit card companies should stop plastering peoples information ALL OVER THE PLACE. I know my credit card number and they know my credit card number. Why do they need to put it on pages people are never in a million years going to keep? It would be really interesting to know how many people actually bother to shred documents with account numbers etc on them.