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Ca: Confidential cemetery papers found dumped

Posted on June 29, 2010 by Dissent

Jenni Dunning reports:

Residents are fuming after a cardboard box overflowing with personal information, including credit card numbers, was found outside a Hamilton cemetery yesterday.

The discarded box [found “near a railway next to piles of broken tree branches and stinky garbage at the back of Hamilton Municipal Cemeteries’ headquarters on York Boulevard”], about the size of a milk crate, held dozens of photocopied burial contracts and Visa receipts, as recent as this month.

Read more in the Hamilton Spectator.


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