Scrap Your Car Sensibly and Avoid Identity Theft
It is not a big secret that identity theft is a real and growing threat to the security and safety of the UK public. Nonetheless, criminals are constantly trying to refine their techniques and approaches to ripping off the identities of other people, which means that just as you think you’ve all bases well covered, chances are you are still open in one way or another.
Up and down the United Kingdom, there is a growing problem concerning identity theft and the various scrap companies spanning the country. Not at the hands of the people running the scrap yards of course, but rather the criminal minds that have realised that obtaining access to the personal details of other people can very often be as easy as getting access to the scrap yard.
In the instance of scrap companies that deal directly with the public, it’s usually possible to pay a certain fee and simply have free run of the yard to find and pay for anything you need. Sadly, when vehicles are scrapped either in an accident or simply after reaching the end of their lives, a big proportion of their owners do not make the necessary effort to completely clear their vehicles out. Therefore, it is not uncommon to find pretty much anything from utility bills to bank statements to expired credit cards and much more – all of which could have the potential to fall into the hands of criminals within reach of the scrapped vehicles.
So, it is a pretty simple idea to sum up really – if you are planning to scrap a vehicle by way of a junkyard and would like your identity not to fall into criminal hands, you may want to ensure you do not leave a gift or two in the car.
Safety First
Here at Take My Scrap Car, we do things a bit differently as rather than stacking hundreds of vehicles to be sold on in parts, we are all about recycling. When you come to our company, we will take your vehicle away for the purpose of stripping it down and getting it ready for the recycling plant. Therefore, not only do we go through every car meticulously, but after a vehicle is passed to us, that is the end of the story – nobody else will get their hands on it.
The way we see it, it is far more important to bring as many vehicles as possible back into the system in the form of recycled metal than it is to simply leave them to rust on a pile up and down the UK. We are aware that scrapyards play an important part in providing motorists with what they need, but at the same time the country as a whole is dependent on our recycling efforts.
So once again, if you plan to hand your old vehicle over for scrapping, you might want to think carefully about not leaving anything revealing or personal…just in case!
