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Don't stress, just shred: 'Shred Day' to be held next week

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The Columbia Better Business Bureau and the Missouri Attorney General are hosting a "Shred Day" next Saturday, October 4th, to help educate residents about the importance of identity protection and fraud prevention.

Mid-Missouri Regional director of the BBB Mike Harrison says that in 2013, more Americans were victims of identity theft than were subject to any other type of fraud.

"Identity theft related to income tax fraud is the top category of ID theft complaints to the Federal Trade Commission each year. So while you're supposed to keep your tax documents—I believe for a minimum of seven years—when it's time to get rid of those [documents] it's very important to shred [them]." 

Harrison says that Columbia residents can bring a maximum of three boxes of personal, unneeded or outdated documents to shred.

The BBB lists a few items that citizens may want to consider shredding including, documents that include your Social Security number on them, expired credit and debit cards and application mail you receive that you don’t want to keep.

"Shred Day" will run from 8 a.m. until noon in the Lucky's Market parking lot on S. Providence Road.