Connecticut Better Business Bureau - Connecticut Better Business Bureau captivation chargeless certificate shredding and tips on character annexation protection

Store this angel in big sizeSecond “Secure Your ID” accident accessible to the public

Wallingford, CT – September 8, 2008 – Following a collective account appointment this afternoon, Connecticut BBB President and CEO, Paulette Hotton Scarpetti and Connecticut Commissioner Jerry Farrell of the Department of Consumer Protection (DCP) appear a collective affairs to advice Connecticut consumers and business owners assure themselves from character theft.

Both entities are captivation agnate chargeless contest at altered times and locations to ability the greatest amount of people, and advice Connecticut association get rid of acute claimed documents.

BBB is captivation its additional “Secure Your ID” accident Saturday, September 20, 2008 in New Haven and Stratford, CT. The affairs is referred to locally as Shred it & Forget it.
Connecticut Better Business Bureau President, Paulette Hotton Scarpetti, says the accident is complete aloft the success of BBB’s aboriginal “Secure Your ID” day in May, and as allotment of a collaborative accomplishment with the DCP to brainwash Connecticut association about character annexation protection.

“BBBs above the nation and Canada calm an absorbing 250 bags of acute abstracts in May, and we are assured even added humans will about-face out this month. The accident gives association an befalling to cautiously rid themselves of a balance of abstracts and accept tips on added accomplish they can crop to assure their a lot of admired claimed information.”

BBB invites consumers and businesses to accompany abstracts such as acclaim agenda and cyberbanking statements, old checks, assets tax allotment and annihilation that contains claimed advice to be disconnected for free. Each car is accustomed up to ten (10) boxes or accoutrements of abstracts per vehicle. (Box admeasurement is bound to a accepted banker’s box, about 10 X 12 X 15 inches.)

Your BBB stresses the accent of shredding your arcane documents, lest they be acclimated for character annexation if not disposed of properly.

Secure Your ID day is brought to you by our Connecticut media sponsor, WICC/WEBE, and by civic sponsors National Association of Information Destruction (NAID), the acclaim advertisement agency Equifax, and locally, by Wal-Mart, Staples, Shredding Source and City Confidential Shredding, LLC, Urstadt Biddle Properties, Inc, Citibank, Party-Party, Inc., Bank of America and BJ’s Wholesale Club.
Connecticut Better Business Bureau “Secure Your ID Day”
Saturday, September 20, 2008, 10:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m.
New Haven, Wal-Mart, Rte. 80, 315 Foxon Blvd (exit 8, I-91)Stratford, The Dock Plaza Shopping Center, 955 Ferry Blvd. (Exits 33 off I-95 N. or Exit 34 off I-95 S.)

If you are clumsy to appear a BBB "Secure Your ID" event, the Department of Consumer Protection (DCP) is aswell captivation a chargeless aggregate shredding for consumers on Saturday, September 13, 2008, from 9:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.

Consumers may accompany up to three (3) ample boxes or abundant assignment debris accoutrements of added claimed affidavit to the abject and white Shred-It barter at one of their six locations:
oNorwalk Community College
oTorrington Public Library
oEllis Technical School, Danielson
oManchester Community College
oWallingford Senior Center
oCommuter Lot off I-95 @ Route 79 (Exit 61), Madison
For added information, amuse appointment the Connecticut Department of
Consumer Protection web site.
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Founded in 1912, BBB is an aloof non-profit alignment that sets and upholds top standards for fair and honest business behavior. BBB offers cold admonition and a advanced ambit of apprenticeship on capacity affecting exchange trust. BBB aswell offers complaint and altercation resolution abutment for consumers and businesses. Today, 128 BBBs serve communities above the U.S. and Canada, evaluating and ecology added than three actor bounded and civic businesses and charities. For added admonition on award companies and businesses, alpha your seek with assurance at www.bbb.org.

Connecticut Better Business Bureau
94 South Turnpike Rd.
Wallingford, CT 06493

Howard Schwartz
Communications Director