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Identity Theft Skeptic Ends Up As Fraud Victim
An anonymous reader writes "British TV host Jeremy Clarkson recently wrote a newspaper editorial ridiculing the uproar that had occurred after the British government admitted to losing two compact discs containing the personal information on 25 million people. To support his claim about the overhyped risks of identity theft, he published his bank account information in the article. Proving that some identity thieves have a sense of humor, a week later, he found out that someone had set up an automatic bank transfer for $1000 to a diabetes charity from his account. This comes less than a year after the CEO of LifeLock, an identity theft protection company which publishes the CEO's social security number on its website, himself was a victim of financial fraud. Back in July of 2007, a man in Texas was able to secure a $500 loan from a payday loan company using the CEO's widely publicized SSN. Will this latest incident finally prove that identity theft is real, and that publishing your own financial info is an invitation for fraud?"
In the immortal words of Bugs Bunny: "What a maroon!"
The world's burning. Moped Jesus spotted on I50. Details at 11.
I like the scam they pulled, but to be truly poetic, the bank transfer should have gone to Friends of the Earth. Anyone who knows of Clarkson will understand.
"Be light, stinging, insolent and melancholy"
Signed
Sam B. Carswell
4994 Pin Oak Drive
Whittier, CA 90603
Email Address: SamBCarswell@fontdrift.com
Phone: 562-943-0713
Mother's maiden name: Grondin
Birthday: January 27, 1955
Visa: 4532 7971 3753 8401
Expires: 12/2009
SSN: 550-80-1765
UPS Tracking Number for my Plasma TV: 1Z 195 055 46 3018 447 5
Yes, but what's your /. password?
In Xanadu did Kubla Khan
A stately pleasure dome decree
"Plus, it'd be nice to not get those 10-15 credit card offers a week in the mail."
No, no, no! You're looking at this all wrong!
I LOVE getting those free offers in the mail - but only the ones with the return-postage-paid envelopes.
Did you know that you can tape that envelope to ANYTHING (almost...) that weighs less than 70 lbs.? And it will be delivered?
That's how I get rid of my old 486, 386, etc computers. And I don't fill up MY landfill! (And they have to dispose of them correctly!)
Sweeeet!!
It's a six digit ID. Who cares? :)
-- The Genesis project? What's that?