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Tip 1: Buy And Use A Crosscut Paper ShredderThere are many types of paper shredder available on the market to suit all budgets. However, a crosscut paper shredder is the one for you. These are more expensive than other models, but that is for a reason. Generally, the cheaper the shredder, the poorer quality job it will do of destroying your documents. Some of the very low cost machines simply cut a sheet of paper into strips 6mm wide. A child could put that document back together. Instead, if a document is worth 'killing' it needs to be done correctly. If you are going to go to the bother of purchasing and using such a machine, you might as well do it properly. If this is the case, a crosscut paper shredder which will chop your documents into very fine pieces is ideal. The blades will cut into fine strips length ways, but also cut across to turn an A4 document into thousands of tiny pieces. For greater sums still, there are machines that will turn a document into little more than dust! In reality, these more advanced machines can cost up to ten times the amount of the cheap 6mm versions just described. The cost is tiny compared to the potential value in time and monetary savings of becoming an identity theft victim. Having purchased a crosscut paper shredder, it is vital that you use it on a very regular basis. Any document of importance to an identity thief should be destroyed. These would include old utility bills, cancelled cheques, credit card statements, old bank statements, junk mail that displays your name and address and more. Just by destroying the brief list above, an identity thief will find it much harder to locate documents that can be used to impersonate another for loan applications. All we can do is make life difficult and hope that they choose another target. Back to
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