We all get them: credit-card applications in the mail. I usually rip ’em in half and toss ’em in the recycling. I may have to rethink that technique.
The Torn-Up Credit Card Application
Long story short: Good ol’ Rob Cockerham, of cockeyed.com, tore up a credit card app, taped it back together, sent it off–and received a credit card. Yikes.
Guess we need to burn them. Funny thing is, I think we’ve only had our identities stolen once, and the credit card co. managed to figure it out with the very first purchase — gasoline, several states away.