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Identity theft victims?
Posted on 5/15/14 at 11:08 am
Posted on 5/15/14 at 11:08 am
Wife just got a call from Ally Bank Loss Prevention department.
Apparently on the 13th, someone tried to open an account with her information. The lady on the phone said that it looked odd when it came across her desk yesterday (not sure what threw a red flag).
My wife called the local PD to report the fraud, and is waiting for someone in Records to call her back. She is on the way to our bank to give them a heads up.
It looks like Ally Bank is strictly online, so I understand why the thief chose this one.
What worries me is 1. Somehow they had the correct cell phone # and 2. Dont you have to use your social to open an account? I am not sure if they used a faulty social or not, I can only hope.
My wife is freaking because of the access they could have to anything else, and she is in the middle of registering with the National Nursing Board (background check, etc.)
I have only had this happen one other time when I had 2k stripped from my bank account and spent at a lumber yard in South Africa.
Have any of you had a similar experience? Any tips?
Apparently on the 13th, someone tried to open an account with her information. The lady on the phone said that it looked odd when it came across her desk yesterday (not sure what threw a red flag).
My wife called the local PD to report the fraud, and is waiting for someone in Records to call her back. She is on the way to our bank to give them a heads up.
It looks like Ally Bank is strictly online, so I understand why the thief chose this one.
What worries me is 1. Somehow they had the correct cell phone # and 2. Dont you have to use your social to open an account? I am not sure if they used a faulty social or not, I can only hope.
My wife is freaking because of the access they could have to anything else, and she is in the middle of registering with the National Nursing Board (background check, etc.)
I have only had this happen one other time when I had 2k stripped from my bank account and spent at a lumber yard in South Africa.
Have any of you had a similar experience? Any tips?
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Posted on 5/15/14 at 11:11 am to Polar Pop
I got to ask my accountant
Posted on 5/15/14 at 11:11 am to Polar Pop
quote:The frickery.
I had 2k stripped from my bank account and spent at a lumber yard in South Africa.
Like, who does this kind of stuff? Posted on 5/15/14 at 11:18 am to Camo Tiger 337
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The frickery
Blows my mind to this day. That was back in November of 2011.
This time they didnt get any of my money and Im hoping it stays that way.
These motherfrickers can swan dive off the space needle.
Hopefully my info isnt floating around the goddamn deep web right now.
Posted on 5/15/14 at 11:20 am to Polar Pop
A couple weeks ago someone hacked into my ATT account and ordered an iphone. I caught it before it shipped. Supposedly it's a very big source of fraud right now (cell phone acct takeover).
Posted on 5/15/14 at 11:21 am to Polar Pop
My credit cards have been compromised several times in the past 6 months. Hopefully the issue has been resolved. I've had to go to pretty extreme measures and it's quite frustrating as I do a ton of purchasing online for my business.
Posted on 5/15/14 at 11:24 am to VABuckeye
This is becoming far too easy for thieves to do this kind of stuff. The safeguards in place seem to be annoying and only prevent you from accessing your account most of the time.
Where do we go from here though as this is obviously only going to get worse?
Where do we go from here though as this is obviously only going to get worse?
Posted on 5/15/14 at 11:34 am to Polar Pop
When I was in college, someone tried to use my debit card number ordering $25K worth of merchandise from Overstock.com. Luckily they checked with my bank to verify the info and it didn't match. frick those bastards.
Posted on 5/15/14 at 11:36 am to Polar Pop
Happened to my me and my wife about 5 years ago. Best advice I can give you is contact the credit reporting firms and have them put a 90 day fraud alert immediately. Then after you get the police report contact them and have a 7 year fraud alert put on your names. Also, you will need a police report for everything so get it and make a bunch of copies. You will be filling out fraud affidavits for a while and will need to mail them and the police report back. Keep records of all of your notices, etc. And just hope the calls quit coming from people saying you or your wife was trying to do this and that sooner rather than later. I think ours went on from first notice until last call for close to 9 months or so. I spent a ton of time on the phone with people explaining the situation.
ETA: For us they opened wal-mart credit accounts online, tried ordering laptops, opened online banking accounts, etc. The only place they couldve gotten the info they used for us (address, cell #s, e-mail addresses, etc) was off the paperwork we filled out for the apartment we lived in when we first moved to Texas. SOmeone either stole the info from the complex front office, someone working there stole it themselves and sold/gave to someone else, or that same worker was the one who was doing the identity stealing.
ETA: For us they opened wal-mart credit accounts online, tried ordering laptops, opened online banking accounts, etc. The only place they couldve gotten the info they used for us (address, cell #s, e-mail addresses, etc) was off the paperwork we filled out for the apartment we lived in when we first moved to Texas. SOmeone either stole the info from the complex front office, someone working there stole it themselves and sold/gave to someone else, or that same worker was the one who was doing the identity stealing.
This post was edited on 5/15/14 at 11:40 am
Posted on 5/15/14 at 11:39 am to Marlo Stanfield
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Marlo Stanfield
Jesus Christ. Thanks for the heads up.
Wife just graduated Friday, have a 7 month old baby, things were just getting smooth until this bullshite happened.
Its always something.....
Posted on 5/15/14 at 11:40 am to Polar Pop
I have had someone open a 40k line of credit, purchase a car, and 3 credit cards. The only one they failed to do of the credit cards out of the major companies was Discover, which is the only card I dont use.
They either changed my address, mothers maiden name, telephone numbers, birth date, or spelling of my name in each occurrence, yet still got each account open
They either changed my address, mothers maiden name, telephone numbers, birth date, or spelling of my name in each occurrence, yet still got each account open
This post was edited on 5/15/14 at 11:42 am
Posted on 5/15/14 at 11:46 am to NYCAuburn
Ally just said they tried to make a test deposit of 49 cents from a Square Inc. account located in Louisiana.
Obviously this is the Square brand cell phone credit card payment system.
I am hoping that the PD can subpoena gps coordinates from the cell phone company or Square (Im probably dreaming but it would be ideal).
Obviously this is the Square brand cell phone credit card payment system.
I am hoping that the PD can subpoena gps coordinates from the cell phone company or Square (Im probably dreaming but it would be ideal).
Posted on 5/15/14 at 11:54 am to Polar Pop
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I am hoping that the PD can subpoena gps coordinates from the cell phone company or Square (Im probably dreaming but it would be ideal).
get ready for nobody to do a damn thing about your identity theft
Posted on 5/15/14 at 12:06 pm to Polar Pop
I once had a $100 charge on my account from ConsGameHere.Co hahaha Regions didn't red flag it, so I called to tell them their Fraud Protection department was full of tards and needs to be cleaned out if they couldnt catch that obvious shite. They corrected my account and said the FBI was actually investigating that website. Apparently someone got ahold of a slew of card #'s and rang up $100 charges on a few thousand cards.
Posted on 5/15/14 at 12:33 pm to NYCAuburn
Friend had cell phone stolen Fri night. GPS pinpointed the location Sat morning at some kind of shady second hand electronics store. They reported it and the cop showed up there and retrieved it as it was being dismantled for parts. Shop busted for buying used stuff without keeping a log of who they bought it from. So its possible.
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