FTC Recruiting Identity Theft Victims

coondoggie writes "In an effort to buttress its enforcement and better understand the scourge that is identity theft, the Federal Trade Commission said today its plans to conduct a wide-ranging study of victims of the crime. The FTC is looking for people harmed by the crime and said the survey will examine the remedies available to victims under the Fair and Accurate Credit Transactions Act of 2003 (FACT Act). Among other things, the FACT Act gave consumers the right to place fraud alerts on their credit files if they are, or suspect they may become, victims of identity theft; block information on their credit reports that resulted from identity theft; and obtain copies of their credit reports free of charge."

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Just got a phone call from the FTC

[HermDog]

They asked me for my social security number and date of birth to verify I was the person they meant to call and told me they'd be getting back to me real soon.

*phone rings*

[rabiddeity]

Recruiting, eh? I can imagine the phone calls going something like this:

"Hi, Mr. Phillips, I'm from the FTC, and we've heard that you've recently been the victim of identity theft."
"Yes, yes that's true!"
"To verify that the study is accurate, could I have your date of birth please?"
"Sure, it's September 17th, 1964."
"I have the first digit of your SSN as '6', is that correct?"
"Yes."
"Could you read off the rest of it for me?"

My identity was stolen.

[Spy der Mann]

Now I don't know who I am, or why I have several fake ID's in my posession. I don't know why I am efficient in killing heavily trained soldiers with my bare hands. I only know one thing: My name is Jason Bourne.

Re:My identity was stolen.

[Xyrus]

Most don't know who I am, or why I have so many "aliases". I don't know why I am efficient at killing heavily embedded bugs in thousands of lines of code. I only know one thing: My name is Stephen Bourne.

~X~

Re:My identity was stolen.

[techno-vampire]

My name is Jason Bourne.

I've always thought that there should be a book in that series called Bourne Again, so that the protagonist would have the excuse to bash anybody he wanted.

WTF?

[Anonymous Coward]

I tried volunteering for this
But they said I had already signed up yesterday.

Re:Lumping too much stuff together

[Tubal-Cain]

Not Much.

Re:and obtain copies of their credit reports free

[JohnnyGTO]

this was were Trans Union got my info for the spam.

Re:Blockbuster does not need your SSN

[Ihmhi]

Falcon

And then you punched them, right?

Re:Blockbuster does not need your SSN

[L0stm4n]

Funny, mininova never asked for any of that. No late fees either :)