einzweibel

Look at this horrible thing. It seems some kids are stealing identities to obtain a good education. Either it’s almost robin hood-level “noble criminal” activity, or a commentary on the quality of American public schools:

TrustedID Identity Theft Blog: Identity Theft Protection » Blog Archive » Ivy League ID Thief May Do Time

If it wasn’t true I’d laugh at the irony of it all. But seriously it’s scary. What if some kid who entered college on a stolen ID and decided to copycat Virginia Tech? Then the police’d end up investigating the wrong folks!

jtee

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.

Lissa

Wow.

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accida

It’s terrible. Now everyone has to worry about the identities of people they may never see again. Parents will need to sign into a protection programs make sure their kids’ lives don’t get destroyed before they can even begin. My neighbor has her entire family (3 kids and the Gp’s on trustedid. I don’t kid her about it anymore. It’s not funny when you hear about people spending months and months to rebuild their credit and get their identity back.