The Theft Of An Identity – How It Happened To Me
Sarah and I have been married for 6 years now.
We started out like many couples, with both of us working hard to finish our undergraduate degrees and just managing to scrape by with part-time jobs.
Before either of us graduated, Sarah was working at Bed, Bath and Beyond and I was working at Chili’s as an assistant manager. We didn’t make a lot of money at that point and, as a result, we lived in a pretty small apartment in midtown.
As people who live in Omaha know, midtown is a pretty safe area but it does border some not-so-safe parts of town. While we never really had any problems like some of our neighbors did (one actually had his apartment broken into), our mailbox was broken into a few times and we guessed that some of our mail was stolen.
We really didn’t take it seriously. I mean, it’s not like I was getting much in the way of important mail. Bills were just about the only thing that showed up on a regular basis. Sure, we got some junk mail, and yes we received some credit card offers now and then – we didn’t know how important that junk mail and those credit card offers were at that point, however.
Well, it turns out that someone wanted a few of those credit card offers that had been sent to me, along with a few other pieces of information that was sent in the mail. That information is in high demand with those people who make their living through credit identity theft and credit identity fraud.
The information that was stolen right out of our mailbox was enough for whoever stole my identity to get a nice head start at screwing with our credit and creating a huge headache for Sarah and I.
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