OT RANT: ID Thieves, DIE! Options

[scotty]

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All ID Thieves must die slow painful deaths! He even has crappy taste in cars (A 2000 Eldorado?) I will find him. He *will* have an accident.

[scotty]

there are all kinds of other ways they can obtain your info

Yeah. I shred everything. There was no break-in to my home or cars. The guy's got my SS number, drivers lic number, and home info. No clue how he got it. Must've been a medical office...or the good ol' Oregon DMV

I got lucky and found out early...an eager beaver car dealer called me at home instead of calling the cell number the guy gave him (No, I didn't order an Expedition). Called Eqifax and the others right away.

Did you know that some dealers don't check your credit before they let you drive off with a new car -- the guy got a loaded 2000 Cadillac Eldorado! If they'd checked my credit, they would've caught the Fraud Alert. At least the have tape of the transaction and a photocopy of his really good fake license.

Dummies. Not my problem, except...

...the bastard drove by my house and tried to steal my mail in his new Caddy! Had to turn around in my driveway 'cause I'm at the end of a dead-end street. I wasn't sure if it was him: didn't know about the caddy at the time, but I jumped in my car and followed long enough to get a lic number. Found out later it was him. Now I wish I'd rammed the hell out of him and run him off the road (some nice drop-offs in the west hills)

got a call from the caddy dealer's credit agency after that (damn, it was him)...told them the bad news...

Last monday night, they guy came by and stole my steel locking mailbox and post (boxes are at the end of our dead end street, I'm on the other)

Good news: All I'm out is a really nice locking mailbox and post (he had to rip it out of the cement -- the neighbors down there heard nothing) $200 and change and I'm not responsible for the caddy or anything else. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/beer.gif)

Bad news: I haven't caught him yet. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/fighting19.gif)
...and I've been forced to spend time and $$$ covering myself (plus having to buy an alarm system)

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