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Wellstone ruled

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8. Did a part time job in a

Fri Sep 25, 2020, 02:00 PM

Sep 2020

Call Center(Boiler Room) selling Home Services as well as Utility Connections. Your Phone number,last four digits of your Social,as well as your Address can be reverse engineered with data mining software to give anyone all your vitals. BTW,Utility Companies are the worst for data security followed by your Bank.

Never ever let a Utility or Mortgage Company allow them to do a referral for more services. When those referrals hit my display,I had all vitals one needs to raise holy hell with your Bank accounts or Credit Cards. Never never never.

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Shredding? [View all] question everything Sep 2020 OP

You might want to hang on to those for a couple more years. PoindexterOglethorpe Sep 2020 #1

Thanks. So I can get rid of pre-2013 papers? question everything Sep 2020 #2

Yes. 3Hotdogs Sep 2020 #3

You have to keep anything that documents the basis of your capital gains assets for progree Sep 2020 #5

Another example of something I had to keep going way way back - non-deductible IRA contributions progree Sep 2020 #7

I pretty much keep all the tax returns - the forms, not supporting documentd - from the 80s.. question everything Sep 2020 #10

Yup, that should be good enough for something like this (non-deduct contribs), but unfortunately progree Sep 2020 #11

Shred everything or anything Wellstone ruled Sep 2020 #4

Thanks, yes. Every credit card or cash offering with a special ID goes to the shredder question everything Sep 2020 #6

Did a part time job in a Wellstone ruled Sep 2020 #8

"referral for more services?" what kind? question everything Sep 2020 #9

Here you go. Wellstone ruled Sep 2020 #12