I already lock my snail house*
However, a better lock is now on the list.
* Actual garden snails just love our letterbox, seems appropriate.
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You may run security software, encrypt everything, protect your very complex passwords and use two-factor authentication for everything, but the humble mailbox and the snail mail it contains can still see your identity stolen. So say Police in the Australian State of New South Wales, where Fraud and Cybercrime Squad detectives …
friends noticed a bank statement envelope open in their letterbox and months later learned that parties unknown had used the information in the letter to socially engineer a bank call centre and establish a new user for an internet banking account. Months later, thousands of dollars disappeared*
What is a bank statement envelope? Is it a species of Tyrannosaurus Rex? I thought you can see those only in a museum.
With all due respect if you are still getting documents which can result in identity fraud by insecure snail mail you will be hit by identity fraud. Bank statements, credit card statements, etc do not belong in a snail mail envelope - they are actually more secure online (*).
* I wish I could make the idiots in the tax office stop sending me tax code changes by snail mail too.
* I wish I could make the idiots in the tax office stop sending me tax code changes by snail mail too.-
Send me your NI number. I will add you to my spoof payroll. Change your address to my accommodation address. When I run my EPS/FPS (Real Time Filing) all your changes of coding, refund cheques and history of employment will be sent to my address. Simples.
ICO and HMRC do not think this is a problem.
The OTHER Colin Bull