When moving house take on board the fraud risk
There are so many things to do when moving home, so much excitement and so much stress, that it can be very easy to overlook some fundamentally important practicalities. Overlooking these things can prove expensive however, as a recent security survey from the Royal Mail indicates.
Some stats from the Royal Mail survey :-
- Headline figure of 23% of house movers at risk of identity fraud
- 450,000 at risk of identity fraud every year by delaying in advising suppliers of the change of address.
- Millions of items of mail containing highly confidential information get delivered to old addresses
- 23% fail to advise credit card companies of change of address
- 21% % fail to advise the Local Council of change of address
- 20% % fail to advise insurers of change of address
- 19% % fail to advise their bank of change of address