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Originally Posted by JethroB76
Dont forget the tinfoil hat..  |
Actually it is no laughing matter. I've already had two attempts at identity theft and one was fairly disconcerting in several respects:
a) how little information he needed to defraud a major telco with whom I never have had any dealings (and never will);
b) that the attitude of the telco was to sue me first, don't even bother to ask;
c) that the telco also proceeded to assemble a pile of other data on me via land title and rental records in order to establish my identity, and then attempted to initiate fraud charges against me on the basis that I was using a false identity.
It wasn't until I said, OK, lets see you in court and I'll gladly go after them for costs and punitive damages that it began to dawn on them that I was not the person they were after.
The legal wrangling dragged on for 4 years before the telco finally gave up. They didn't have the common decency to apologise, however.