This is a story about identity theft and how I discovered my identity had been stolen. Some of the headaches, the endless paperwork and the things I wished I would have known years ago. I am determined to get back to a FICO score above 720
Not like I don’t have my own issues to deal with but I was reading an article about how there may be a huge increase in Identity Theft because of the Bailout.
Most of the article is about how a downturn in the economy causes people to take more chances and resort to crime. [...]
Check this out, two sisters get arrested for stealing a debit card and using it. They stole the card from a friend. They used it to by gas and food. The total came to less than $400 buck but they are hopefully going to go to jail for this.
It’s crazy to think [...]
A woman was sentenced to 12 years in prison after she lieft to the court about having cancer. It was her attempt to get a lighter sentence to her scam in which she ripped off small business owners in an identity theft crime.
http://www.9news.com/news/article.aspx?storyid=111279&catid=188
One of the easiest lessons that I learned in the process of repairing my credit is that a lot of what I did like keeping my social security card in my wallet, just dumping old bills into the trash and tossing unopened credit card offers are the easiest way to have your credit stolen.
I use [...]
Looks like the government is at it again. The FAA has had a huge data loss. They are doing their best to keep our information safe.
There were 48 files that were breached from a server containing information on over 45,000 FAA employees and retirees.
You can read more about it on the FAA website at – [...]