Beware Of Zombie Credit Cards That Work After Expiration

When I was a kid, I saw my mom cut expired cards in half when throwing them away.

Ever since then, I always strategically cut my old cards into several pieces, making sure to break up the number, chip, date, name, etc. I’ll throw them away in separate trash cans and maybe wait to throw some pieces out after we take out the trash for a week.

Lol, it’s pure silliness, no one is desperately piecing cards together out of my trash. (In reality, you’d probably just find compromised cards online, or go hit someone with a wrench.)

But this headline makes me feel ever so slightly justified in my goofy behavior.

I just got a shredder with a slot for cards, shreds the whole thing to tiny bits, infos, microchip, stripe

But yeah if you buy dumb stuff on shady websites online, nothing will save your credit card info from being scraped electronically.