Mike McClanahan reports from Alabama:
A tip from viewer led CBS42 to a stack of files full of valuable personal information, just out in the open…ripe for the picking for identity thieves.
There were ten folders in all. Full of employee names, phone numbers, social security numbers, addresses, work histories, birthdays, and even copies of birth certificates. That is precisely the type of information identity thieves are after. In some cases, social security numbers were in plain view, written on the actual file folders.
Nine were tossed out in a trash bin behind the Fred’s Super Dollar in Midfield. One was on the ground.
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