The Better Business Bureau of Eastern North Carolina announces today it will host bounded shredding contest for individuals and baby businesses on Saturday, September 20. The "Secure Your ID" Day locations are Raleigh’s Ridgewood Shopping Center and Falls River Town Center. The contest will run from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.
Participants are encouraged to accompany up to three boxes or accoutrements of abstracts to be shredded. Documents to be disconnected should be removed from binders. BBB and added accommodating organizations will accommodate tips and assets to advice assure your identity.
“Shredding acute cardboard abstracts is an important aboriginal step, but it doesn’t end there,” says Beverly Baskin, admiral and CEO of BBB of Eastern North Carolina. “That’s why BBB experts will aswell be distributing important admonition and simple accomplish anybody can crop to anticipate ID annexation in their circadian lives, both online and off.”
In 2007, 8.1 actor Americans became victims of ID theft, consistent in the accident of $45 billion, according to a 2008 address from Javelin Strategy and Research. The address addendum that the majority (56 percent) of ID annexation occurs if the bandit had absolute acquaintance with the victim’s claimed information, through a baseborn or absent wallet, rifling through a claimed mailbox or trashcan, or even appropriation abstracts from central a home or business.
The BBB is arduous Triangle consumers and businesses to top the 5 bags of acute claimed abstracts that were deeply destroyed during its bounce shredding accident this year.
“We’re analytic to body aloft the drive created at our aboriginal accident in May,” adds Baskin. “Our ambition actuality is to empower humans to be their own aboriginal band of aegis adjoin character annexation and accomplish advice beneath accessible.”
For added information, appointment www.easternnc.bbb.org/secureID.
About BBB of Eastern North Carolina:
The Better Business Bureau of Eastern North Carolina is a 501 (c)(6) not-for-profit association confined 33 counties in Eastern North Carolina. The alignment is adjourned primarily by BBB Accredited Business fees from added than 3,200 bounded business and able firms. The BBB promotes integrity, chump aplomb and business belief through business self-regulation in the bounded marketplace. Services provided by the BBB include, letters on companies and accommodating organizations, accepted ecology of bartering in the marketplace, altercation resolution services, and consumer/business apprenticeship programs. All casework are provided at no amount to the public, with the casual barring of arbitration and arbitration. Visit www.bbb.org.
Media Contacts:
Cindy Stranad
cindy@articulon.com
(919) 232-5008 x101
Beverly Baskin, BBB
bbaskin@raleigh.bbb.org
(919) 277-4202
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