Identity theft!!!

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FerrariTruck

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Just wanted to remind you folks around here that you should be very careful of all your personal information. Turns out that last week on monday my bro went to a credit union to apply for a motorcycle loan. The interest ended up being too high so he ended up not getting the loan. Well, as things went on my brother had no idea anything was taken place till thursday when he got
2 credit cards in the mail. One for a kohls and the other for a toysRus. We both had no idea why he had gotten them so he called the customer service number to find out. Well long story short, both credit cards were opened on the following friday (7/18) and the phuggers went to town. They racked both of the cards up to the tune of about $1500 each!!! We made some calls to the big 3 credit places and placed a fraud alert on his social... Then yesterday he got 3 more cards in the mail.. Jcpenny, best buy, mervyns... All racked to the max which is about 2k each!!! Waisted all day callling each card and going thrui the strokes with each one, did you open it-no i did not yada yada... I guess all thats left now is to go to the police and file a report. The reason we suspect the credit union is because of the few days in between the application for a loan and the opening of the false accounts. OH and the fact that they open false accounts and made purchases in stores that are in the same shopping center. Well thats my rant and hopefully we bust these POS's!!!

Keep your info safe and never be to trustworthy!!!
 
I have fraud alert on my credit too. It's not easy to get it over 800 and I plan on keeping it there. Sucks about your brother but it sounds like the people who did it were so stupid as to use the cards in the same plaza. Hopefully, it'll be an open and shut case for your brother.
 
Been there done that -- TWICE. You took the first step, filed fraud alerts. Definitely file police reports and contact the FTC and file a report with them. Did the vendors mention anything about launching their own investigation?
 
Had dentity theft last year as well. No cc but email, game hacks, etc. Harder to proswcute because no money was actually stolen and the DA has bigger fish to fry. Nice to know my tax money is working for me. I'm sueing in civil court and will win hands down since IP addresses are linked to guys house.
Good luck to you guys.
 
Sucks!! Wonder if a credit union employee took the info or they just tossed his loan application in the trash without shredding it?

A large institution that I had done business with for over 10 years was hacked and my debit card info was stolen and used in Thailand and Chicago. I only found out when my debit card would not work. When I called them they informed me of the problem.....wow great service NOT!!!! I have sinced closed all my accounts, taken the money out of their hands and put into their competitors!!! Idiots!!

patrick
 
Lifelock! That's the company where the CEO displays his personal SSN. I saw the ad and checked it out. They sold me. The best ten dollars a month I have ever spent.

http://www.lifelock.com/
 
Intresting topic, I'll share something that happened to me last year:


I received an email from my Mum while at home, emails from my mother are rare. She said that she had a work colleagues partner asking if I had been sending full front nudity photos to his daughter. He said it sure doesn't sound like Carl but he has a photo of his Challenger and that it was definitely mine. Anyhow, apparently this unknown guy had somehow taken a photo of Lucy, my Dodge Challenger at the restoration shop and posted it on the website "nzdating.co.nz" said he had 3 cars, lived in Wellington etc (same basic info as me). When I was asked I was shocked, "HUH!? Sending what to who? F#%k that no way, never done that shit before!!!" :mad:

So out of share luck, one of the girls he managed to chat with online and sent his nude photos to, knows my Challenger and I and informed her Dad who in turn knows my Mum via work. This joker was sending full frontal nude shots to this girl hence her Dads reaction and email to my Mum. :eek: I viewed this date site and sure enough was a photo of my car and basically info about me, just basic (age, location, cars, etc), everything but the name which was some made up user name.

So I called up the resto shop as they don't allow anyone to take photos of customers cars, the bosses' words were basically: "WTF!?! how #$%&* weird?! Just can't explain it". I knew from the profile that I had never taken that shot and that it wasn't just a side on, he got up on a chair or something to take it. So, Dave the shop owner where my car was asked around and remembered that a new "work experience" guy started 3 weeks ago, he wasn't all there in the head.

Dave took him on for some work experience and to give him some time back in the work force. But, Dave remembered that the guys at work talked about how this new temp guy was always on about how he was on nzdating and how he hooked chicks. So, basically, the mystery was solved. He took a photo of Lucy during work, posted it on the net and used what he knew about me to complete his little game.

So, the ACC consultant was called and we confronted the guy at work who admitted immediately. We sat him down at the resto shops PC and got him to delete the photo of Lucy and asked for an explanation. I warned him twice that if I see my car again anywhere it wouldn't be nice for him and that he'd be pretty sorry, this is pretty much eyes bulging fists clenched time, was close to decking him but I'm on 2 strikes for assault (dumb drunk things earlier in life).

I told him he better delete the photos at home on his PC & digital camera. His reason was it was a nice car so he wanted to use it and the rest of his profile was just coincidentally along the lines of a description fitting me lol, he didn't think it would cause this much hassle (in a soft cock smug kind of tone), felt like knocking him out then and there but kept my cool.

So, Dave the boss fired him straight away and apologised several times on his shops behalf (nothing he could do) and we all had a good laugh about it as, well, people would have thought it was me sending full frontal photos to girls, not good for me, the work experience program, the resto shop or my family & name (my MoPar Registry, personal websites etc). It's pretty funny now but things like that can be taken to another criminal level, that would be all I need.

He may have known my carlwalski.com site and pretended it was his site giving links in his first email to his girls then shots of his cock in the next email so when people who saw/seen these photos and saw any of my cars out and about they'd think I was him :mad: not good. Next thing you know I have angry Dad's and mobs chasing me........I'm just glad we were able to quickly solve who was doing it and put an end to it, small, small, world. That is all. Sorry for the long post, but it wasn't easy to explain clearly in short. :)
 
Django said:
Fkn douchebag theives...........

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:eek: spell check must have been on the fritz :p :p :p :D
 
I hope they catch them fast Alfredo ...........
 
FerrariTruck said:
Just wanted to remind you folks around here that you should be very careful of all your personal information. Turns out that last week on monday my bro went to a credit union to apply for a motorcycle loan. The interest ended up being too high so he ended up not getting the loan. Well, as things went on my brother had no idea anything was taken place till thursday when he got
2 credit cards in the mail. One for a kohls and the other for a toysRus. We both had no idea why he had gotten them so he called the customer service number to find out. Well long story short, both credit cards were opened on the following friday (7/18) and the phuggers went to town. They racked both of the cards up to the tune of about $1500 each!!! We made some calls to the big 3 credit places and placed a fraud alert on his social... Then yesterday he got 3 more cards in the mail.. Jcpenny, best buy, mervyns... All racked to the max which is about 2k each!!! Waisted all day callling each card and going thrui the strokes with each one, did you open it-no i did not yada yada... I guess all thats left now is to go to the police and file a report. The reason we suspect the credit union is because of the few days in between the application for a loan and the opening of the false accounts. OH and the fact that they open false accounts and made purchases in stores that are in the same shopping center. Well thats my rant and hopefully we bust these POS's!!!

Keep your info safe and never be to trustworthy!!!
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Goto the cops and file a report. Find out who you talked to at the credit Union and who handled your account information after them (for the cops to do). Also the stores they bought stuff at will have surveillance cameras. You might get lucky enough to recognize the a-holes on the tapes. That would be nice for you. Act quickly so you can give the cops time to get the surveillance.

Good luck.
 
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