Identity Theft Stories
Identify theft stories are a great way to learn more about identity theft
and how it can happen to you. Most people believe that identity theft
cannot happen to them. However, when you read about identity theft stories
you can see that is does happen to normal people just like yourself!
Take the follow story of a lady living in Central Florida. She believed
that identity theft could not happen to her. She soon learned different
and ended up going to jail because of identify
theft!
Identity Theft Stories
One Saturday
morning, a 32 year-old woman went to the grocery store. In her wallet she had
money to pay for groceries, her driver's license for identification and a
checkbook for her money market account. In no way, however, was the thief she
was to encounter looking to steal money. The thief wanted to steal her identity!
Another woman
who looked very similar to this lady but had a background of crime knew that she
was again in legal trouble. She didn't want the police, should she encounter
any, to know who she really was. The perfect solution was to find someone that
she could "pass for". "Where would someone be on a Saturday morning that might
look like me", she thought. Then the idea to look for that victim in the grocery
store struck her. Sure enough, she found the perfect victim.
Sometime after
paying for groceries the thief struck, leaving the victim totally unaware. It
was sometime later that the victim noticed her wallet was no longer in her
purse. She thought she might have dropped it in her van. She searched to no
avail. She called the grocery store but no wallet had been turned in. She really
was only concerned about getting a few things back like the pictures of her
father that were in her wallet. She knew the money would not be returned but
maybe the other items would. This was not to be; on Monday, she obtained a
duplicate driver's license, closed the money market account and replaced it with
another. The experience was over – or so she thought.
Six months
later, this same woman was driving down a highway, going a little over the speed
limit. The police stopped her. Thinking the only problem was a speeding ticket,
the woman was friendly and confident when giving her information to the police.
Moments later, she was handcuffed and taken to jail! The lists of charges
against her were quite long and, having never been inside a jail, she was quite
traumatized.
While it was
later proven that the many charges against her were not in fact her crimes, it
cost over $3,000 to get the problem straightened out, plus many hours of her
time. Today, with computer crime, a stolen identify can cost much, much more to
repair.
Identity Theft Story Conclusion
You can see by this story that identity theft can happen to anyone and it can
end up costing you a lot of money and time. You should always be extremely
cautious when dealing with computer information or private information in your
home, car or wallet. There is no need to carry more confidential
information on you then what you are actually going to be using that day.
You should never take identity theft lightly and make sure and learn
something from identity theft stories like this.
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