Joe
Austin,#2Consumer Comment
Mon, January 19, 2009
THE PROBLEM WITH IDENTITY THEFT IS THAT THE POLICE WON'T DO ANYTHING UNLESS YOU CAN SHOW THAT SOMEONE ACTUALLY HAS DAMAGED YOU BY WRONGFULLY USING YOUR IDENTITY AND YOU CAN PROVE IT. SO YOU NEED TO CONTACT ALL THREE CREDIT REPORTING AGENCIES AND HAVE YOUR FILES FLAGGED FOR SUSPICIOUS ACTIVITY. YOU LEARNED A VERY HARD LESSON AND THAT IS IF YOU DO NOT HAVE ANY FAMILY MEMBERS IN A FOREIGN COUNTRIES THEN YOU HAVE NO CLAIM ON AN ESTATE --WHETHER ONE EXISTS R NOT. DO NOT PUT YOUR IDENTIFYING INFORMATION OR YOUR FINANCIAL INFORMATION ON THE INTERNET FOR ANY REASON AND DO NOT GIVE IT OUT OVER THE PHONE EITHER. THIS COULD PROVE TO BE A COSTLY DISASTER -- NOT YOU HAVE TO PLAY A WAIT AND SEE GAME WITH THE NIGERIAN SCAMSTERS. YOU WERE A VICTIM OF THE NIGERIAN INHERITANCE SCHEME IN WHICH THEY CON YOUR INFORMATION OUT OF YOU SO THEY CAN STEAL YOUR IDENTITY....
Me
Las Vegas,#3Consumer Comment
Sun, January 11, 2009
We all get these emails and such. Most people just hit delete. I actually waste my time reporting them to whomever I possibly can report them to, including wherever the email was sent from. If you really were her beneficiary, don't you think she would have had that information already? At least you had a limit. But think of this, they still already have enough info to steal your identity, even better, they can sell it, over, and over, and over.