AARP Tucson Shred-A-Thon: Protect Against Identity Theft

Combating fraud is a priority for AARP Arizona, which represents approximately 860,000 members age 50-plus throughout Arizona. Identity thieves routinely search through dumpsters and trash cans, looking to find confidential information.  One way to keep your identity safe is to shred documents containing personal information. This includes bank and credit card statements, tax forms, and medical bills.

To avoid having your sensitive information compromised, security experts recommend shredding of the following types of materials:

• Old documents:  Papers that carry your Social Security number, birth date, signature, account numbers, passwords or PINs.
• Banking:  Canceled or unused checks.  Shred deposit slips and ATM and credit card receipts, once you receive your monthly statements.
• Credit Cards: Preapproved credit card applications and incentive/gift checks from credit card companies.
• Medical: unneeded medical bills.
• Investments: Investment account statements.
• Obsolete ID cards: Expired driver’s licenses, medical insurance cards, and passports.

Experts recommend that consumers who use a home shredders should use of a micro-cut model. Tests have shown that the scraps of paper from a straight or cross-cut shredder can be reassembled by identity thieves.  With a micro-cut shredder, the paper is rendered into impossible-to-reassemble debris.

More information on how to keep yourself safe from identity theft fraud, and alerts regarding other types of scams, is available from the Fraud Watch Network.

Join us for us a free shredding event:

Bring up to 5 banker (medium-sized) boxes of unwanted documents for on-site shredder. Follow the signs to the shredding truck located in the parking lot.  Help protect yourself against Identity Theft by shredding your confidential, unneeded documents for free!

Saturday, April 22, 2017

9:00 am to Noon

Or until shredding truck reaches capacity

Oro Valley Market Place 

11785 N. Oracle Rd. 

Oro Valley, AZ 85737