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Wednesday, May 28th, 2008I recently got a phone call from a credit card company verifying that I requested a card on May 15th. I had not. The person I talked to verified my personal info including current address. This did not match what they had from a person that was trying to get a card in my name. [...]
I became a victim of identity theft from my own husband!
Monday, May 19th, 2008FBI in Jackson, MS let my husband get away with it. The FBI showed up at my house to let me know that my husband was being indicted on bank fraud. I filed for divorce immediately and hired a criminal attorney to protect me from him……. needless to say thats when I found [...]
IBD Article re: Lodrick Identity Theft
Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008Interesting story, Karen.
Here is our (my) story in a nutshell:
I received a phone call from a police officer in Bellevue, Washington who had arrested an individual (MLS) in a routine traffic stop, who had a ton of my personal financial information in his possession. The information was paper copy of a loan application with [...]
Does anyone know any ways to protect social security number?
Wednesday, March 5th, 2008Hello everybody, I have been using my social security number
for my taxation purposes. But, I have been recently intimidated by my lawyer
that since the crime of identity theft has been on the high I should be careful
in using it. I am really concerned about this and need to know whether there
are any ways by which [...]
Help! My wallet is stolen
Tuesday, March 4th, 2008I know that this is not going to help me right now as I am
already a victim of theft. My wallet has been stolen and I have lost all my
important documents that even included my financial details. I fear that they
may be used to make my accounts drain. I have already taken the necessary steps
for [...]
Anyone knows any prevention against identity theft?
Monday, March 3rd, 2008I have recently been victimized by the theft of my credit
card. But, due to favorable situations I could prevent it from being miss-used
and was able to make thins go in the right way.Anyways , I would like to know
that if there any services which keeps your financial information safe and make
you secure about thefts.
He was living in my home-My story
Friday, February 29th, 2008I woke up one morning to the police knocking in my bedroom door and my, now, EX-fiance was taken to jail. He had victimized me and had numerous credit cards in my name. He had also defrauded my roommate of over $50,000.00 including a $26,000.00 car.
Life was bliss and I couldn’t wait to [...]
THANK every cashier who checks ID
Saturday, February 23rd, 2008I make it a point to thank every single cashier who checks ID when I use my credit card.
I THINK WE ALL SHOULD!!!
Cashiers should no longer be kept reluctant to check IDs for fear of customer annoyance, simply because no one thanks them for checking!!
Corporation’s Inadequacy leads to identity theft…
Wednesday, February 13th, 2008Seems to me like even more progress could be made (stopping identity theft, or at least its devastating effects) by holding responsible those agencies that open accounts fraudulently. Websites [government run or otherwise] that post “public” records online, are only making it easier for people to access such records from anywhere in the world. I [...]
Institutionalized Corporate Complicity
Wednesday, February 6th, 2008A big part of the problem is that there appears to be either a widespread denial, or a “who cares?” attitude, on the part of big companies & corporations, that identity theft is a crime that affects victims, sometimes for life. I long ago gave up contacting Yahoo!’s “fraud” folks ’cause they never followed [...]
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