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Kaili

Friday, October 25, 2002 - 02:21 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Ummm, Hillbilly....that's the same website that Zachsmom posted!

Kaili

Friday, October 25, 2002 - 02:22 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Ahhh...that explains it!

Hillbilly

Friday, October 25, 2002 - 02:22 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Suits...is there anyway your brother in law could have gotten your husband's or your social security numbers? He would have the rest of the info to steal your identity: place of birth, mother's maiden name, dates of birth, etc. Just a thought.

Goddessatlaw

Friday, October 25, 2002 - 02:28 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Great catch, Hillbilly - and good for you, Suits, for taking some excellent advice. This stuff is so common right now. Clearing this up is not altogether that difficult right now, Suits, because it is so common - but getting some criminal action on it is near impossible. Make a report to the police, of course, but don't necessarily expect much action out of them unless it's someone local you can identify. The credit companies will clear it, and you need to follow up to make sure it is not reflected on your credit reports. This may take some hounding, but it can be done. Good luck, Suits, and I'm sorry you have this pile of schmidt to put on top of the heap.

Suitsmefine

Friday, October 25, 2002 - 02:29 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Thanks Zachsmom, That website is great! One of the companies is being very helpful , the other I can already see I am going to have to fight tooth and nail!! This sucks!! I would never do anything like this to someone, I just do not understand why people have to do things like this, and just when I thought things were going to be sooooo much better!

Goddessatlaw

Friday, October 25, 2002 - 02:33 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
PS, Suits - document, document, document!!! Send letters certified, or emails with receipt confirmation, and keep copies of EVERYTHING. Your correspondence, their correspondence, police reports, credit reports - everything.

Hillbilly

Friday, October 25, 2002 - 02:40 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Suits...don't forget to run a FULL credit check with all three credit reporting companies. Also, check for bank accounts, utilities, loans, etc. Most should show up on the credit reports...get a hard copy of these...not just a verbal, over the phone type.

I would probably err on the side of caution, if it were me, and go ahead and call all my legitimate account companies and ask that they issue me a new credit account #, change ALL your pin numbers and passwords immediately.

Notify your bank to be on the lookout and for advice.

Locate all your unused blank checks and make sure ALL numbers are accounted for. This means going through each separate book check by check to make sure someone has not ripped any from in between where a missing check would not be noticed.

Once you have found them...buy a small safe (Walmart has them) or a locking file cabinet and keep all financial info locked up.

Locate all social security number cards for each family member and put them in a safe deposit box.

If you are using your ssn on your drivers license or have it printed on your checks...have it removed immediately. Arkansas will let you use another number on your license...ssn is not required.

Never use your mothers real maiden name as a security word. Yeah...I know they ask for it...but you don't really have to give out your mother's maiden name...you can use a fictious name for this purpose. Just as long as YOU know what you are using.

Hillbilly

Friday, October 25, 2002 - 02:44 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
PS

Buy a cross cut paper shredder for home use and ....shred it, baby, shred it!

Willsfan

Friday, October 25, 2002 - 02:45 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I had a Dillards credit card which I seldom used so imagine my surprise when I DID use it that the next months statement had not only my name but a strangers name. I found out that this name had been added on at FT. Smith, Ark. either by their office or by someone in the store?!? They said NO HARM DONE they would just remove it and I told them to cancel my account and I cut up my card.
BTW I have never been in the Ft. Smith store.

Look at all your Dept. store statements very carefully if this could happen to me it can happen to you...and the person may be actually using your card, in another state. Not identity theft but the employee who added the name to my card could have maxed out my card and I wouldn't have reported it until I got the bill. Dillards could have then wormed out of it because the statement had both names on it like I consented to it.

Suitsmefine

Friday, October 25, 2002 - 03:16 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Hillbilly, THANK YOU!!!! The first person who popped into my mind was that bas####!!! It would not surprise me if it was him. Anyway, Thanks to all of you for your great advice!! Right now I just want to sit down and BAWL!!!! I just can't wait til hubby gets home from his relaxing trip to find this one out!!(Should I tell him before or after I get him drunk?) I must find my ear plugs! Goddess, have they implemented the death penalty for identity thieves? If not they should!

Whit4you

Friday, October 25, 2002 - 04:47 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Someday... I'll post to this thread a 500,000 word essay on my top 5000 gripes... till then I so try not to 'get started' lol.

Lumbele

Friday, October 25, 2002 - 06:22 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Momma Grooch, was it him?
frog2

Hippyt

Friday, October 25, 2002 - 06:39 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Here's my gripe of the day. This morning my two-year old daughter and I are watching Blue Clues on Nickelodeon.During the commercials,a commercial for a car comes on with a song that includes the word 'like a sex machine.' I can't remember who does it,but it's an old,popular song.I just don't think toddler tv should be throwing that in there just because they know the parents are watching. I was totally annoyed! If my 5 year old had caught it,who's to say I wouldn't hear it coming out of his mouth?????? I think I may just send Nick Jr. a nasty e-mail about that one!

Draheid

Friday, October 25, 2002 - 06:42 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Hippyt: Was the commercial you saw by any chance for a local car dealer? Just curious.

Grooch

Friday, October 25, 2002 - 07:38 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Lumbele, that looks like a lizard I once met, and that is a whole nother story, that I am not sure what thread it should go in. Maybe, a thread should be started called "Near Fatalistic Heart Attacks and Their Causes."

Both the frog and the lizard belong in there.

Lumbele

Friday, October 25, 2002 - 07:45 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Tonight I can't keep up with you guyssweat, I try - honest, but catching up on a day's worth of posts, with all those windows open, answering - yes, only in the wrong thread and every "refresh" brings on yet another load. I need a breather.LOL
Grooch, waiting to hear the lizzard story. Where shall I look for it - Best Date or Worst Date?LOL

Grooch

Saturday, October 26, 2002 - 06:18 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
<<Where shall I look for it - Best Date or Worst Date?>>

Lumbele, neither. We need to start a thread called, "Sh*t Happens" ;)

Suitsmefine

Saturday, October 26, 2002 - 09:06 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Okay, here I go with another one....I am sitting here watching SNL, Is it just Me or does anyone else feel ANCIENT????? They are showing clips from past years Halloween shows, and I must admit, It seems as if When I was a teenager+ they always had Killer bands, as well as such HILARIOUS skits. Am I jaded or what?

Juju2bigdog

Saturday, October 26, 2002 - 11:21 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
When I was a teenager, Dick Clark was really hot and was in his very first teenagerhood. We didn't have a lot of SNL, so I think SNL is better now.

Misslibra

Sunday, October 27, 2002 - 01:15 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Since SNL have come back with a new season it has gotten off to a shall we say a slow start. I enjoy the pass clips, but would have like to seen a fresh new show tonight... gripe! gripe!

Dick Clark never aged, he is still in his teenagehood. He has no gray hair isn't it amazing! :)

Sisalou

Sunday, October 27, 2002 - 12:18 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I have a gripe, problem that has really been bugging me. I take care of my great aunt (85years old) who has middle stages alzheimers. We live in a nice little community. There is a business here that pays elderly peoples bills and takes care of their insurance stuff etc.

Anyways, the lady that owns the business borrowed around $80,000 from my aunt for about 12 months. (She paid it back with some interest about a year later)

Isn't this unethical/ possibly illegal? Now the lady wants to sell out to a girl that works with her and they are hinting around that my aunt should loan the girl $28,000 and pay her back by the month.

I have been worrying about this all weekend and am going to call the attorney generals office Monday morning to see if this is illegal.

Any thoughts?

(I'm not even going to mention all of the things my aunt has given to them.)

Fruitbat

Sunday, October 27, 2002 - 12:22 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Your aunt or her power of attorney only has to say no. It is not illegal to hint or even ask someone for a loan. Just say no. Maybe I am missing a detail here.

Sisalou

Sunday, October 27, 2002 - 12:36 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Hi Fruit,

Her power of attorney would say no. I guess my point is this: They are managing affairs for people that don't have the mental capacity to do it themselves. I think it is taking advantage of my aunt for them to ask her to do this.

It just really galls me that they keep coming around with their hands out. Maybe if they came by to just visit instead of always wanting something.

I am usually able to let go of things but this has been eating me up. I really would like to tell them what I think but I can't. My aunt is very kind and likes everyone and I don't want to upset her.

Wargod

Sunday, October 27, 2002 - 12:59 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
If you're aunt has a power of attorney, isn't that person in charge of her money? Can she actually get her hands on the money, or does it have to go through the power of attorney?

Goddessatlaw

Sunday, October 27, 2002 - 01:01 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Sisalou - I can't give you legal advice, but only practical - get your aunt's money out of there and report them to the attorney general and better business bureau. You may need to get a guardianship in order to move the money if she and her poa won't agree.