Re: Horrible news: better lock down your kids' ssn #'s | | Identity theft is pretty bad stuff, and takes years to get your record cleaned up.
We had a credit card number stolen once, and the thief ran up close to 10K starting on Friday night and ended on Monday morning when the bank called us saying there was about 50-60 on-line transactions in just 2-3 days. Thankfully our bank looks for unusual transactions; a normal person doesn't spend nearly 10K in small transactions over the weekend.
Took a while to sort it all out, so now when on-line we are very careful about not releasing our real names, photos of ourselves, and other personal info that can be used by on-line thieves. |