It doesn’t take much to prevent your private information from being misused against you.

“I know about cases of identity theft, but I never thought it would happen to me. When I first received a notification of an unknown transaction, I was stunned. I immediately initiated a fraud alert and contacted the police. It took 23 days for the police to get back to me. According to the police, the thief confessed that he was able to reach my account with the information he found in my GARBAGE BIN. That’s just insane!” – Peter Gregory

Identity theft is on the rise in the United States, and Peter’s case is among the 76,305 reported cases in Michigan alone.

Contrary to popular belief, identity fraud does not always begin online. According to Travelers claim data, 44 percent of ID fraud cases happen offline. And the craftiness of identity thieves extends far beyond stealing credit or identity cards, some will even sift through your trash to uncover personal information, lifting them off bank statements, bills, tax returns, junk mails and more. All that’s needed is a name and a phone number, then a thief can fake as a representative from the bank to get your private information. With an added address, they can build a persona of you to apply for several credit cards, leaving you in huge amount of debts.

Little bits of seemingly harmless information can be extremely dangerous in the wrong hands. So if you’re not careful about what you discard in the trash, you could end up becoming a victim of identity theft.

One of the most traditional ways to protect your information is to use a paper shredder. However, a paper shredder is not for just anyone. The loud noise it makes while shredding papers can be dreadful, and it creates a huge mess after shredding each paper into thin strips. Alternatively, you could manually peel or scribble information out until your wrists ache; some go to the extent of paying for a service to destroy their information.

The good news is, no matter what you always do, you don’t have to do them anymore. Now, there is a far more reliable, affordable and convenient way to protect yourself from identity theft: the InfoGuard Roller Stamp

Here are several points that prove how InfoGuard Roller Stamp surpasses all traditional methods of protecting your private information:

By the time you finish reading this, about 47 U.S. citizens had their identities stolen. Don’t be the next victim, safeguard your information with InfoGuard Roller Stamp.