Posted by Kevin

These crack articles just crack me up!   We all try to spend time protecting ourselves from the “unknown” thief you know, the person that finds a wallet, or takes mail from your mailbox and uses the information. But how about the thief that is in your family. This guy steals information from a family member and buys a Jeep and charges a few thousand dollars on their cards – this is identity theft, not by a stranger but by someone you know.

The family discovered the identity theft because “Uncle Cory just got a new Jeep and Mary just had her identity stolen by a guy who bought a new jeep.”   Thank goodness my family is not this screwed up, we may borrow but we never would consider stealing an identity.  We are happy with our own identities.

http://www.thestarpress.com/article/20090102/NEWS06/90102017/1002/NEWS01