Shredding CC receipts: Yes or No?

redpete

I just put them in the bin unless Mrs rp catches me because she insists on destroying them on the word burner despite me insisting that the last 4 digits won't help anyone.

[Deleted User]

I keep them until I see them appear on my online cc account then chuck em in the bin, tbh i shred nothing.

agrinnall

I have mine going back around 10 years, along with the statements, you never know when you might need to refer to one. Ones older than that I burn.

shiny76

I don't. However the missus tears hers into the smallest possible pieces but then shes crackers - she does the same with hand written addressed envelopes

paulharding150

Can you still read what's on a thermal role ten years later?

Adam720

I rip them up before putting in the recycling - more out of habit than actual suspicion of malice. Can't harm though.

whelkmice

Adam720 wrote: »

I rip them up before putting in the recycling - more out of habit than actual suspicion of malice. Can't harm though.

Thanks for all the replies - there seems to be two camps: shred everything or just throw it away!


My (minor) paranoia stems from the TV consumer advice programs that used to advise you not to throw away CC receipts in your household waste & would show a reporter rifling through a bin to find receipts & statements, with much pointing out of personal data that could be misused in some way...


I assume there is little or no information on a CC receipt & that CC / Bank statements would be the real goldmine of information.


I think I will relax & just throw away (or recycle!) the receipts but keep shredding the statements when done with.


Thanks again

eskbanker

whelkmice wrote: »

I assume there is little or no information on a CC receipt & that CC / Bank statements would be the real goldmine of information.

No need to assume, just look at them! A statement will indeed have all sorts of information, including your name, address and full card number (plus info about who the card provider or bank is), whereas a card receipt will usually only have the last four digits of the number, so it's not really rocket science to identify where the risk of personal data misuse is....

Paully232000

agrinnall wrote: »

I have mine going back around 10 years, along with the statements, you never know when you might need to refer to one. Ones older than that I burn.

10 years for all reciepts? What could a 10 year old receipt be useful for.

I can understand keeping then for a few months/year, but anything more than that, apart from possibly very expensive things that have been bought for a while longer.

I shred all receipts that I am not going to keep, and dont just bin them.

Shakin_Steve

In a similar vein, a certain city council in the north used to post thousands of payslips out, mainly during school holidays. So...anyone who intercepted one had: Name, address, NI number, bank sort code, tax code, payroll number, tax office code......
I'm sure any fraudster worth their salt could have done something with that. They stopped doing it last year, no doubt after being shown the error of their ways.