identity theft?
Did I mention that I've been grappling with some weak-ass hybrid of identity theft and 4th grade level pranks for the past couple of weeks? Someone's been using my name, address, and phone number, for all sorts of purposes ranging from silly to scary. They don't seem to have my social or my credit cards. Here's what they've done so far:
- Applied for a home loan online. WITHOUT MY SOCIAL. That part tends to be important in these matters, the SSN.
- Requested more information from Capella University's School of Business MBA program be delivered to my home address. Right. A frickin' MBA program.
- Requested more information from American University's MBA program. Here's the part I don't get - how does me learning about a part-time MBA program help ANYONE? It doesn't even help me, let alone someone who would badly like $700.
- Bought a $700 pair of shoes online with someone else's credit card but shipped to my address. Funny how their automatic fraud detection picked up on that over at soleas.com.
- And a couple of people calling to follow-up on my interest in refinancing my home.
So, it doesn't make any sense at all. Not a bit. I put a fraud alert on my credit report and get this - you don't get solicitations for new credit cards in the mail while you have a fraud alert on! Score!
Every day remains a mystery - who will call at 9am and ask to speak to me, except when they ask for me they'll have my first and last name switched? Incompetence, people. If you're going to fuck with my identity, do it with some style.
note: that last remark was not a challenge to anyone to steal Ethan's identity and, say, open an ice creamery in Los Banos, California. That would be some stylish identity theft.
Posted by Ethan at September 20, 2005 12:57 PM