 Hello everyone this is financial author Amit Dam of Aeron Journal. Today I will show you how to properly destroy a parade card so that scammers or con artists are not able to extract valuable information from your cards. If you are interested to learn how various investment internet parade card scam works please visit www.aeronjournal.com. I have a variety of articles under life money smart tip section and these articles will help you to recognize and prevent various types of scams and protect your money and everything else. Thank you. Hello everyone this is financial author Amit Dam of Aeron Journal. Today I will show you how to properly destroy a parade card. When you are about to get rid of old parade cards or expired parade cards instead of just throwing them out or putting them in the garbage you need to properly destroy them so if the scammers or con artists get a hold of them they are not able to extract the information from the parade card or from the cheap and replicate the parade card to scam you in order to do that or in order to properly destroy your parade card you need to cut them into pieces but at the same time you need to be careful that you're cutting your cutting or you're destroying the parade card numbers which are right here and the chip where all the information is stored if the scammers can get a hold of this piece or this chip you never know what they're able to do so it's better to be careful than sorry and also you need to cut your name or destroy your name so today in this video I'll show you how to do that if you see if you look at the card you'll see that I have drawn some red lines what it means that these are the lines you need to cut and if you just follow these lines it's going to cut all the vital information or destroy the information which are stored on your parade card for example this line right here let's start like this so you're gonna cut the number in such a way that the number are not readable anymore so this way you're cutting them into half okay now you're going to follow each line and here is where usually your name would show make sure that you cut it such a way that your name is no longer recoverable from the destroyed card and then start cutting the chip I'll just cut this part of broken chip into another part anyway okay so now if you if you take a look at it the card is completely destroyed and the chip portion of the card is broken into pieces now although I'm confident that it's gonna be very hard or almost impossible to extract any information from these broken pieces however just to be over sure I'll not put them in one garbage so what I'll do I'll take each piece and put it into separate garbage is possibly on different dates or let's say if I go out then I'm gonna take this with me and I start putting okay sorry I believe I got cut off in the middle so I'm doing this part again so I was saying that just to be over sure I would put each pieces into different garbage is that way the scammers or con artist are not able to get hold of everything together and piece them together just to be over sure now if you're worrying about the magnetic strip on the back I just wanted to make sure that following the method I just mentioned to destroy create card would also destroy your magnetic strip on the back because it will cut them into pieces so it shouldn't be it should be almost impossible to piece things together so whenever you are destroying your crate cars instead of putting them into garbage or throwing them somewhere just make sure that you follow this process to destroy them completely the scammers and con artists have high tech devices and they're easily able to extract information from your crate cars if it goes into the wrong hands so just to be safe and secure you need to destroy everything that's all for today thank you