UCA Holds Campus Event To Combat ID Theft

UCA's Beta Alpha Psi chapter says college students make up 31 percent of the nation's identity-theft victims each year. It says half of all college students receive credit card applications weekly and that many are tossed out without being shredded.

Some colleges also post grades by Social Security number, another possible source for fraud, the accounting society said.

The company that provided the shredders, ShredSmart of Little Rock, said documents shredded would be recycled by a sister company, Goldman Recycling.

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