The $10 Billion Problem Sitting in Your Mailbox According to the FTC Consumer Sentinel Network Data Book 2023, U.S. consumers reported losing more than $10 billion to fraud in 2023 — the first time reported losses have crossed that threshold. Identity theft ranked among the most-reported fraud categories, with roughly …

Physical Mail Is the Forgotten Privacy Vector Most people now treat their inbox as a threat surface. Phishing links, credential-harvesting emails, and data-breach notifications have trained a generation to be cautious online. Physical mail, by contrast, feels low-tech and therefore safe. It is neither. The postal …

The Mailbox Surprise Nobody Warns You About The boxes are barely unpacked and the mailbox is already full—but not with correspondence for the new residents. Catalogs for outdoor furniture, kitchen gadgets, clothing brands, and home goods begin arriving within days of a move, most of them addressed to the new occupant …

Take Back Control of Your Mailbox — and Your Personal Data Federal law and free or low-cost industry tools give you real mechanisms to remove your address from the mailing lists that clutter your mailbox and, more importantly, from the data pipelines that can widen your identity-theft exposure. Every piece of physical …