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Stop the Junk Mail and Telemarketers
By Daniel | July 6, 2008
“There were roughly 5 billion credit card offers mailed last year to about 200 million individuals in the U.S. This means the average person receives about 25 per year. The average household receives more than one per week.”
Stop the credit card offers from filling your mailbox, get your name off mailing lists, and prevent telemarketers from calling. Reducing the number of credit card offers you receive can reduce the chances of falling victim to credit card fraud or a scam. Mail can be stolen and even if you tear the offer up, someone can tape it back together and send it in. Take a look at The Torn-Up Credit Card Application by Rob Cockerham. Rob tears up a credit card application, tapes it back together, and fills it out using a different address and cell phone number. The card still arrives despite the credit card’s website stating you should tear up your offer if you are not interested. Once you register to have your name removed it may take up to 90 days for the full effect to kick in. After we registered, the number of credit card offers has significantly gone down. We still get the occasional offers from credit card companies that we already have a card with.
“Each year, more than three million Americans discover that credit accounts have been falsely opened in their name; of these, at least 400,000 can blame the crime on stolen mail.”
- Stop pre-screened credit card and insurance offers at OptOutPrescreen.com or call at 888-567-8688. You can choose to opt-out for five years or permanently. Registering is free of charge.
- Stop the junk mail. The Direct Marketing Association or DMA uses mail, phone, and the internet to send you advertising. To remove your name from mailing list, just simply click here and register with them to have your name removed, however, they do charge $1 to remove your name. They also provide a service for removing email address from unsolicited commercial emails.
- Register your phone number with the National Do Not Call Registry. By registering your phone number most telemarketers will not be allowed to call you. Registration is free and if you do receive phone calls after you register, you can file a complaint online.
Topics: Consumer-Shopping, credit |