Tearing isn’t safe enough

We are all inundated by credit card, mortgage and other applications that are just annoying. Most of us simply tear up the applications and throw them out. I’ve always assumed that just tearing the applications in halves or quarters is enough and should prevent anyone from being able to reconstitute the application to send out.

And, even if someone did manage to take a torn application, put it back together and send it to the credit card companies one would assume that the companies would immediately discard the application and even make an attempt to track down the malicious person.

One would assume. But that doesn’t seem to be entirely the case with, at least, one credit card company. That, in this case, being Chase.

One guy who had a little time and patience on his hands decided to just see what would happen if he tore up a credit card application sent to him, then put it back together using nothing more than tape, fill out the application while changing specific pieces of information including the delivery address and mailed the application.

The results are absolutely astounding. Not only did this guy get his new credit card delivered to the alternate address he had chosen, he could activate it using the alternate phone number he’d given.

Be afraid, be very afraid.

Cheers

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