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Step 1
Get rid of those stickers on your car!. A sticker that shows a happy family of a wife a husband a few kids and a pet is telling a criminal looking for kids that there are kids in that family. A sticker telling everyone that your kids take tennis lessons or are the smarter flute player at their high school, gives the criminal enough information to make contact with the kid. The criminal knows enough to start a casual conversation with the kid.
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Step 2
Get rid of the flags that identify your believes or your nationality. Who cares who you are anyways or what you believe. Live your life for yourself and not to get approval or recognition from the world. What you are doing is getting attention from the criminals who hate who you are and what you believe in.
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Step 3
Get rid of those personalized messages on your license tag. While you tell the world your name, your pet name, your age, that you are a trophy wife or that you hate the person reading the tag, you are attracting attention that can put you in real danger. Someone with a plan can find a lot about you from those tags.
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Step 4
Shred, Shred, Shred. Shredding the bills is not enough. You need to shred anything that has your name on it or anything that gives any indication of who you are and what you like. For instance, you may eat pizza once a week, you had a subscription to a gym and do not need the offer to refinance your mortgage. A criminal can use all of this information to contact you, the people your know or to steal your identity slowly.
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Step 5
Think carefully about the trail of facts that you leave behind you out there about your kids, your spouse, your pet, the things you like or dislike your past, your present and your future. You never know who may be watching.
