TN: Check cashing business throws out documents with Social Security numbers

[kirniki <kirniki () gmail com>]

http://www.wate.com/global/story.asp?s=12447974

A man made a disturbing find in North Knoxville Thursday evening.
Hundreds, maybe thousands, of documents with personal information were
dumped behind a shopping center.

A viewer called about the situation which could be a bonanza for
identity thieves.

When a 6 News crew arrived at Fast Cash in a shopping center at 5100
Clinton Highway, they found documents scattered around a dumpster
behind the business listing Social Security numbers, names and
addresses.

The papers were blowing around the parking lot and into people's yards.

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