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Having Your ID Stolen Leads to Job Loss, Prosecution
ConfusedVorlon writes "The BBC reports on the sad case of Simon Bunce. Mr. Bunce had his identity stolen, and credit cards were made to capitalize on the theft. Some of those cards were used at sites offering child pornography, and as a result Mr. Bunce was swept up in Operation Ore. The poor man was prosecuted for his 'crime', and was eventually found innocent, but in the meantime he lost his job. It took him six months to find another at a quarter of the salary. 'The police's computer technicians take several months to examine [his computers and records], and Mr Bunce could not afford to wait to repair the damage done to his reputation. "I knew there'd been a fundamental mistake made and so I had to investigate it." Recent surveys suggest that as many as one in four Britons have been affected by it. In 2007 more than 185,000 cases of identity theft were identified by Cifas, the UK's fraud prevention service, an increase of almost 8% on 2006.'"
Damn you, that's what I thought when I read the summary. Get out of my head!
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I have 4 children and I can bloody well protect them myself. And for the love of GOD don't let my wife catch you, I'd only kill you.
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I think other posters have missed the point a bit by focusing on the fact that this case was about child pornography.
Mod parent up! This story is about identity theft. To protect yourself from identity theft, you should never use anything other than cash or stolen credit cards for any purchases that you make.
He could move in with his auntie and uncle in Bel-air.
Found Guilty? Ha!
"Innocent until proven guilty" went out the door when Reagan got all peeing in jars and showing [gestapo-accent]Your Papers![/gestapo-accent] every time we got hired. Now we got gitmo. No more of this feeble liberal "give him a fair trial before we hang" him guff.
Thank God good old Ronnie got that goddam gubbmint off our backs! We were never truly free before he came along!
I always liked what John Adams had to say about that. He pointed out that the concept of "innocent until proven guilty" is based on the concept that, if an innocent man is determined incorrectly to be guilty, he then has no incentive keeping him from committing the crime anyway.
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