During the holidays I had the pleasure of becoming a victim of ID theft.
I actually found out about it before the bank did.
I started to see all these overdraft charges and then noticed all these very large withdrawals of cash from our bank account.
I even saw the checks, and the signatures weren't even close
Well...it turns out that the criminals actually got a hold of an old drivers license in a city I used to live in, stole checks from 2 other people in CA , wrote the checks to me and deposited them in my account in Alabama, then cashed them.
That is the way they do it, they steal from Peter to pay Paul.
My bank, police, federal,state law officials are currently investigating this, and we did get all our money back.
The hassle is more that I was entertaining that week and needed to get cash out to pay for the food and drink.
The other hassles were, closing the old accounts,opening new ones, ordering new checks,calling all my creditors,credit unions to place alarms on my identity,filing complaints with the FTC,etc.
In my opinion, they must have either worked at the DMV or broke inot their location ,or the an employee of the bank was in on it, or even the post office, who knows, but I refuse to give up on catching these people who want to ruin someones life that worked hard to get where they are.
It is amazing how they were not only able to cash checks without my signature card, and even how they knew what actual bank I use.
My question is, what is the sense of having a signature card if it is not used and obviously it was not as my signature is nothing like the fake one, you would think a teller would want to check CA checks for large amounts,cashed in Alabama,from a FL account, no answer from anyone!
These criminals are like terrorists that plan these things out way ahead of time and strike like ninjas.
They do this like an every day job, and most get away with it.
Even though the chances of catching them are nil,I refuse to let up and hope I can see the videos and send them to the gallos!
I hope those bloodsuckers burn in h-ll!
So please....if you have any paper with any type of personal information on it ,please make sure you shred it all.
If anyone calls you and asks for your SS#, ask them why they need it and what they are using it for,and refuse to give it to them no matter what.
Even when I requested the alarm on my account to be placed there for more than the 90 days, they want you to send them a police report and request in writting,your SS# which i will not mail to them, they should have it already,it is a joke.
Make the investment in a good shredder and take alittle more time out and SHRED SHRED SHRED!
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