Credit Card Lowdown: Ripped up form yields spanking new credit card

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Ripped up form yields spanking new credit card

Ever read the government websites that ask you to tear up any unwanted credit solicitations as it helps prevent identity theft. All these notifications and advices seem useless when you hear about the experiences of a young man who got a spanking new credit card after he’d torn up the application form, taped it back again and then sent off the application. Blog.washingtonpost.com reports:

The unsolicited credit-card offers "are a ticking time bomb. You have to take some extra step to get rid of them, which is really bothersome because you didn't ask for them in the first place.