Shred your junk mail so scammers can't prey on you.

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Every week my mail box is stuffed with advertisements. And they all have my name and address printed in several places on them. Worse, many of them have pre-populated account numbers for any unscrupulous scam artist to use in their social engineering efforts to get even more information about you. Shred all that mail and don't give them a chance.